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In this issue, we have the top 100 influencers, opinion-shapers, doers, agitators, groundbreakers, myth-busters, business people, sportsmen and women, actors and actresses, etc, who are reshaping the face of Africa as well as global opinion about what Africa and Africans can achieve.

ee p. 69 for subscription offer details LETERS 4 Your news and views COVER STORY 10 One hundred influential Africans FEATURES 34 Thabo Mbeki: What the world got wrong in Côte d’Ivoire 40 The trouble with Namibia 46 Ghana: What is the Rawlingses’ real agenda?

NIGERIAN REPORT 50 ‘Hurricane Jonathan’ keeps blowing 52 Jonathan: An agent of change FOCUS ON ECOWAS 55 Moving towards an

Ecowas of people 57 The Gbeho period 58 ‘Ecowas has come a long way’ SPOTLIGHT 60 Pan-African Parliament SPECIAL REPORT: ACBF 63 20 years of capacity building

REFLECTIONS 70 Globalisation and Africa

NA MARKET 72 The scramble for Africa’s nuclear resources 76 Kenya: ‘Blue miracle worker’

to the rescue

NEEM TREE 78 Lumumba and imperial amorality SPECIAL FEATURES

80 Has Osama hung a rope around America’s neck? 84 Rwanda: To snip or not to snip? 86 Africa: Broken promises THE ARTS 88 Kenya: Master of woodprints 92 Books: Arise, Nana Ayebia! 94 Books: Is Museveni a

Machiavellian?

BACK TO THE FUTURE 98 Lethal force, law and morality ember of The Audit Bureau of Circulations.

66 ACBF success stories