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
THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN AFRICA?

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?
