Who is your African Icon?

 

Is Muammar Gaddafi an African icon? Or perhaps Robert Mugabe? What makes a person an icon? Who would be in your list of Africa's top icons?

What's your view?

Identifying an African icon is difficult... should it be someone from the arts, politics or sport? Someone less well known who is doing good work in your community?
 Here is our list. (in alphabetical order):

1. Chinua Achebe; 2. Akon; 3. Kofi Annan; 4. Nnamdi Azikiwe; 5. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; 6. Hastings Banda; 7. Steve Biko; 8. Amilcar Cabral; 9. Agbani Darego; 10. FW de Klerk; 11. Lucky Dube; 12. Cesaria Evora; 13. John Garang; 14. Haile Gebrselassie; 15. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf; 16. Nwankwo Kanu; 17. Kenneth Kaunda; 18. Salif Keita; 19. Jomo Kenyatta; 20. Angelique Kidjo; 21. John Kufuor; 22. Patrice Lumumba; 23. Baaba Maal; 24. Wangari Maathai; 25. Samora Machel; 26. Miriam Makeba; 27. Franco Luambo Makiadi aka Franco; 28. Nelson Mandela; 29. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela; 30. Hugh Masekela; 31. Roger Milla; 32. Oliver Mtukudzi; 33. Youssou N'Dour; 34. Gamal Abdel Nasser; 35. Kwame Nkrumah; 36. Julius Nyerere; 37. Abedi Pele; 38. Jerry Rawlings; 39. Thomas Sankara; 40. Ken Saro-Wiwa; 41. Haile Selassie; 42. Ousmane Sembene; 43. Leopold Senghor; 44. Wole Soyinka; 45. William R. Tolbert; 46. Ahmed Sekou Toure; 47. Ali Farka Toure; 48; Desmond Tutu; 49. Ngugi wa Thiong'o; 50. George Weah