Sean Jacobs
Forbes Magazine–fresh from its cover story last week about Barack Obama’s “Kenyan, anti-colonialist tendencies” which he inherited from his “Luo tribesman father”–gets back to its normal business: reminding us who has real power. Its annual list of the world’s wealthiest people was published this week. As usual they published two lists: the 400 richest Americans (which contains little surprises); that list is then combined with the rest of the globe’s into a 1000-person list of “The World Billionaires.” A few of the world’s super wealthy who list themselves as citizens of African countries (whether they live there or not) make the cut:*
African Booty
September 24, 2010 By 8 Comments
THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN AFRICA?
August 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Since African women need to be saved by Nicholas Kristof, I’m not surprised to find that only two of them made Forbes’s America-centric (surprise, surprise) list of “The 100 Most Official Women: The top United Nations human rights official, Navanethem Pillay (she’s South African) and the President of Liberia, Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson (BTW, I think Sirleaf-Johnson is probably the most media-savvy African President) .
Is Pillay the most powerful African woman?
