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Africa Is Inventing the Future of Banking 14 / NATURE / Views NATURE / 15 Ethereal Chasm Living on the edge feels decidedly more serene when dancing with the Devil at the tip of VICTORIA FALLS. Visit one of the planet’s most famous natural won- ders in autumn for a heavenly experience. text Martha Shardalow NOT FOR the faint-hearted, peering over the brim of the largest curtain of falling water on the planet is exhilarating to say the least. Disappearing into the billowing, iridescent mist, this epitome of wild water descends 108 m to the bottom. Victoria Falls straddles two countries (Zambia and Zimbabwe). Visitors can swim in the Zambezi River – on the Zambian side – to seemingly defy the laws of physics in an unorthodox infinity pool called Devil’s Pool. The only thing stopping you from partaking in the plummet is a jagged rock formation. From September to December, the flow of the mighty Zambezi River sub- sides and the water level drops, allowing the more stalwart to (relatively) easily fight the current. If the Devil’s grips leave you woozy, turn your head towards the lush emerald sprawl of surrounding rainforest. Alternatively, embrace the dizziness and wave at the day-trippers assembling their tripods in Zimbabwe. Kenya Airways flies to Harry Mwanga Nkumbula International Airport in Livingstone, Zambia, from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The Zambia side of Victoria Falls is 20 minutes from there by car. Hollandse Hoogte 36 / PEOPLE / Influencers PEOPLE / 37 Thought Leaders Speaking with substance is winning hearts and minds on social channels. Meet the media mavens who are giving a whole new definition to the term INFLUENCER. text Eromo Egbejule Ace broadcaster Nancy Kacungira had stints working at NTV Uganda and KTN News Kenya, Nancy but now she’s a BBC News journalist based in Nairobi. Kacungira uses her skyrocketing social media Kacungira status to write about travel experiences, women’s rights, and racism. In 2015, she won the inaugural edition of the BBC World News Komla Dumor Age Award, an initiative to honour the most outstanding 32 African journalist of the year, named after the late Ghanaian broadcaster who died in 2014. Born The self-proclaimed Pan-Africanist has risen to Arusha, Tanzania become one of East Africa’s most noticeable charac- ters in the social stratosphere, despite having a Hometown relatively modest following on Twitter, Facebook Nairobi, Kenya and Instagram (100,000+). She regularly posts with an air of no-nonsense sanguinity spanning topics Achievements such as the rights of women and girls, the reality of “I don’t want to BBC World News Komla Dumor Award working in your dream job every day and Africans (2015) achieving great things; all while shining a light on be famous, I want continental challenges. “On social media, I find Online myself channelling African perspectives that breed to be useful” @kacungira positive activism and optimism because those are @nkacungira values I’m passionate about,” says Kacungira. kacungira.com “I don’t want to be famous, I want to be useful.” Kacungira runs a mentorship programme for young women in Uganda, and offers a series of training workshops on a volunteer basis. She’s also an avid supporter of the Bless A Child Foundation in Kampala, which provides free accommodation, food and specialised care for children living in rural areas who visit the city to get cancer treatment. 38 / PEOPLE / Influencers PEOPLE / 39 Japheth “JJ” Mukhatshelwa Omojuwa “Katchie” Age Nzama 34 Born Age Lagos, Nigeria 30 Hometown Born Lagos/Abuja, Nigeria Venda, South Africa Achievements Hometown His book, Digital: The New Code of Johannesburg, South Africa Wealth, which was published in July; received a Chevening Scholarship to Achievements study Behaviour Change at University Among the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Most Influential College London (2019); Youths (2016) and the Top 100 Women in Tourism Best Twitter Personality in Africa at (2017) the African Blogger Awards (2016); selected for the International Visitors Online Leadership Program (2016). @TheSoloWandera travelwithkatchie.com Online @Omojuwa @JJomojuwa omojuwa.com Anuel Modebe Anuel “When you’re defending or fighting for a cause, “Honestly, if we knew each other better, it’s rarely a tea party” we’d be so much further ahead” JAPHETH OMOJUWA’S disposition on social media is one learnt to be discerning, but he appreciates that great advocacy ONE OF the best-known travel bloggers in Africa, difficult to do so – comes from a deep-seated desire to decolo- of a feisty firebrand who riles governments, and campaigns for sometimes comes with towing the line. “There are some Mukhatshelwa Nzama has valiantly wandered solo across 35 nise African travel. “I’m rewriting how we, as Africans, change with the backing of his 680,000+ Twitter followers. advocacies that don’t allow for you to mince your words. African countries; forever curious about her home continent. change and document our country…promoting Africa to The Nigerian blogger and public speaker uses his social When you’re defending or fighting for a cause, it’s rarely a A few years ago, she embarked on her most daring back- Africans and hoping to inspire more Africans to travel Africa media platforms and website to promote youth empowerment, tea party…you get some people angry, but you aren’t going packing escapade yet, travelling all the way from Cape Town to and learn more about each other, so we’re not ignorant sods sports, political debate and philanthropy, but he rejects the to stop because you’re also aware that the essence of your Cairo in order to highlight the blessings and curses of intra- about each other anymore. Honestly, if we knew each other “activist” label. quest benefits more people than those who are angry. I don’t Africa travel. better, we’d be so much further ahead as a continent.” “I generally just don’t like labels because once people fit need anyone’s permission to set sail once I believe it’s time to Nzama is known for her provocative and honest take on Currently exploring South Africa’s novel craft breweries, you into a box, you have a hard time fighting to get out of that move.” African travel issues – such as internal visa costs – that are Nzama finds it hard to pick a stand-out travel experience. “I box,” says Omojuwa. “But whatever I’m up to at any time, I Omojuwa’s life offline supports his robust online persona. usually clouded in secrecy, making her both loved and hated have so many: the absolute unconditional love I got from will always be a change advocate...‘Behaviour change’ is my He once lectured for six months at Freie Universität Berlin, (in equal measure) on social media platforms. She remains strangers as I travelled alone, and from those who housed me, next career.” And true to his word, Omojuwa was one of the sharing his wisdom on democracy in Africa. He’s also the habitually indifferent, tweeting about cuisine, music and other fed me, and protected and stood up for me.” spearheads of the prevalent #OccupyNigeria protests against a founder and chief strategist at Alpha Reach – a digital media aspects of culture in several languages. fuel subsidy scam and corruption in Nigeria’s oil sector in 2012. consultancy – and founder of the Omojuwa Foundation, Her incessant wanderlust, need to tweet and experimental A veteran of digital interaction, Omojuwa admits that he’s through which he disburses grants to small-business owners. tendencies while roaming in Africa – particularly where it’s 40 / PEOPLE / Influencers PEOPLE / 41 Rebecca Larry Enonchong Madowo Age Age 52 32 Born Born Yaounde, Cameroon Siaya, Kenya Hometown Hometown Douala, Cameroon & Washington D.C., US Nairobi, Kenya & London, UK Achievements Achievements Judge (Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation); Among New African’s 100 Most Influential Africans of named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World the Year (2018) Economic Forum of Davos (2002); one of Forbes’ 10 Female Tech Founders To Watch In Africa (2014); Online one of New African magazine’s 50 Leading Women in @LarryMadowo Business (2014 & 2013) Online @africatechie @techiefoodie Jean Marc Ferré Marc Jean Armstrong Kweyu Kiprotich Kweyu Armstrong “Hopefully, young people, especially women and girls, will see “Our job as reporters is to record history, that being a tech entrepreneur is both desirable and attainable” whether the government of the day approves it or not” IN 2019, the World Bank called her a “heavyweight in Beyond the Internet, she’s also heavily involved in LARRY MADOWO is the crème de la crème of digital Madowo has reported from more than 40 countries, and African tech”. Rebecca Enonchong, who’s the founder and mentoring and offline advocacy, in a drive to get more young superstars (even by Kenya’s glistening standards), packing a he’s interviewed some of the world’s most prominent business, CEO of AppsTech, an enterprise application solutions provid- people into tech entrepreneurship, as well as science, tech- healthy 1.7 million+ followers on Twitter alone. Still, he refuses political and cultural leaders. Earlier this year, he hosted the er, is also one of the judges of the Africa Prize for Engineering nology, engineering and mathematics subjects. Enonchong to be categorised as a social media influencer, with the capacity Global Mobile Awards and the Mobile World Congress 2019 Innovation and a member of the UK government’s Depart- has also cofounded Cameroon Angels – a network of angel to boost advocacy campaigns (as he usually does). “I’m a digi- in Barcelona. In the process, he rubbed shoulders with world- ment for International Development’s Digital Advisory Panel. investors supporting startups in her homeland – and African tal native,” he says.
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