{"id":336540,"date":"2021-04-07T12:40:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=336540"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:53:08","slug":"burna-boy-davido-funke-akindele-wizkid-make-forbes-africa-icons-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=336540","title":{"rendered":"Burna Boy, Davido, Funke Akindele, Wizkid make Forbes Africa icons\u2019 list"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Top Nigerian celebrities have been listed on Forbes \u2018100 Icons from Africa.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Burna Boy, Wizkid, Davido, Omotola Ekeinde, Genevieve Nnaji, Funke Akindele-Bello, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mr Eazi, among other Nigerians made the list.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Director General of the World Trade Organization, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala featured on the list.<\/p>\n<p>According to Forbes, the list was curated from Hollywood exports and Grammy artists to award-winning ideas that can save the world.<\/p>\n<p>It also stated that the list is a way of \u201ccelebrating those whose ideas, inventions, and influential role models have aided Africa\u2019s growth over the last decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forbes on its official Twitter handle, @Forbesafrica, alongside the list wrote, \u201cThis is a way of celebrating those also with the award-winning ideas that had defined the African continent and influential role models that have spelt Africa\u2019s growth over the last decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forbes described Burna Boy in the publication as one of the biggest and most successful African artists on this continent.<\/p>\n<p>While Genevieve was described as the trailblazer of Nollywood.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Nigerian celebrities have been listed on Forbes \u2018100 Icons from Africa.\u2019 Burna Boy, Wizkid, Davido, Omotola Ekeinde, Genevieve Nnaji, Funke Akindele-Bello, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mr Eazi, among other Nigerians made the list. Also, the Director General of the World Trade Organization, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala featured on the list. According to Forbes, the list was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678,3],"tags":[2658,923,9102],"class_list":["post-336540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-a","tag-david-davido-adeleke","tag-funke-akindele"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/336541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}