ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH) (Pvt)Ltd chairman Trevor Ncube has been named among the top 100 most influential Africans by United Kingdom-based New African Magazine.
Staff Reporter
AMH publishes Southern Eye, the Zimbabwe Independent, The Standard and NewsDay.
He is joined in the accolades list by three other Zimbabweans, First Lady Grace Mugabe, Econet Wireless founder Strive Masiyiwa and novelist NoViolet Bulawayo.
The list also has four African heads of State, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyata, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt, President Idriss Deby of Chad and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.
Also on the list is cement and sugar mogul Aliko Dangote, Donald Kaberuka of the African Development Bank and Carlos Lopes of the Economic Commission for Africa.
Ncube, the executive deputy chairman of the Mail & Guardian Media in South Africa, founded AMH 18 years ago with one title and 13 employees, presently it employs at least more than 300 people across four newspaper tittles.
Ncube is a keen exponent of the African renaissance and this year, he set up M&G Africa, a Pan-African digital news agency based in Nairobi Kenya.
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Ncube said it is a blessing to be recognised for doing what he is passionate about, adding that his works in Southern Africa had seen nominated in the top 100.
“Our work in Southern Africa and our new Pan-African business based in Nairobi, Kenya has helped us impact a significant part of the continent,” he said.
“We are also involved in a number of initiatives aimed at strengthening African media on the continent and helping change the way the continent is perceived by the rest of the world.”
Ncube said he is passionate about Africans telling their own story instead of being on the sidelines as the Western media tell our story.
“Instead of complaining about how the world tells our story, time has come for Africans to tell their stories,” he said.
“Nobody can tell our stories better than ourselves. And only Africans can change the African narrative.”
Grace has been in the limelight since she entered the political realm in the middle of the year after being nominated to head the Zanu PF women’s league.
She has addressed rallies throughout the country, where she launched acerbic attacks on Vice-President Joice Mujuru and her political allies, accusing them of wanting to topple President Robert Mugabe.
Grace is believed to have a huge influence on her husband.
Masiyiwa is the founder and chairman of Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe’s leading mobile operator with over seven million subscribers.
Econet has operations throughout Africa where it runs voice and data services.
NoViolet is a Zimbabwean author who has received awards and commendations for her debut novel, We Need New Names, including the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Prize for fiction.
