ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH) Private Limited chairman Trevor Ncube has been named among the top 100 most influential Africans by United Kingdom-based New African Magazine.
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AMH publishes the Zimbabwe Independent, The Standard and the country’s leading independent daily newspaper, NewsDay and Southern Eye.
He is joined in the accolades list by three other Zimbabweans namely, 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 Kenyatta, 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, African Development Bank president Donald Kaberuka and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa executive secretary Carlos Lopes.
Ncube, who is also the executive deputy chairman of the Mail & Guardian Media in South Africa, founded AMH 18 years ago with one title and 13 employees and now employs at least 300 people across four newspaper titles.
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 made him be 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,” Ncube 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 tells the African story.
“Instead of complaining about how the world tells our story, time has come for Africans to tell their own story,” Ncube said.
“Nobody can tell our story better than ourselves. And only Africans can change the African narrative.”
First Lady Grace has been in the limelight since she entered the political realm in August this year after being nominated to head the Zanu PF Women’s League. She has addressed rallies throughout the country during which she launched acerbic attacks on Vice-President Joice Mujuru and her political allies, accusing them of wanting to topple President Robert Mugabe.
She is believed to have a huge influence on her husband, President Mugabe.
Masiyiwa is the founder and chairman of Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe’s leading mobile operator with over seven million subscribers. Econet has operations across Africa where it runs voice and data services.
NoViolet is a Zimbabwean author who won several awards this year for her debut novel, We Need New Names, including the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Prize for fiction.
