SEXIEST AFRICANS ALIVE 2014 list was
put together by illuzionmagazine.com and they asked that i share on my
platform with my blog visitors..The top 20 was selected from an initial
100 shortlist submitted in an open poll The list includes leading
Ghanaian actresses Yvonne Nelson and Joselyn Dumas alongside Nigerian
actress Genevieve Nnaji, South African platinum recording artist Lira,
football legend Didier Drogba, and a host of others.
Photos below...
Photos below...
GENEVIEVE NNAJI, AGE: 35, NIGERIAN, ACTRESS
Genevieve
Nnaji is an AMAA award winning super star actress, with an enviable
profile, which include a profiling on the Oprah Winfrey show and on
CNN’s Connect The World where she was dubbed Africa’s answer to Julia
Roberts and ......................................................................................................
WILLIAMS FALADE, NIGERIAN-FITNESS MODEL
Williams Falade is a Nigerian-British fitness model and the former Miami
Pro European Fitness Model Champion 2013, Body of Africa 2013.
Williams has built a brand and career out of his love for fitness, which
has notably made him a highly sought after fitness instructor and
celebrity personal trainer.......................................................................................................
LIRA MOLAPO, AGE: 35, SOUTH AFRICAN, MUSICIAN
Lira
is a celebrated South African platinum recording artist,who like wine
only gets better with age. she is revered and loved across South
Africa, On 29 April 2014 she released her debut American album “Rise
Again”. She is a multi-platinum selling and an 8x South African Music
Award-winning Afro-Soul vocalist who refers to her music as “a fusion of
soul, funk, elements of jazz and African. Lira won the 2014 Africa
Muzik Magazine Awards for Best Female Southern Africa. According to The
Star Newspaper, she’s currently considered the foremost adult
contemporary female solo artist in South Africa. She has appeared in
major ad campaigns and been an Ambassador for Audi, Shield, Samsung, MTN
and Blackberry. She has appeared on the covers of over thirty magazines
worldwide and currently holds the largest Facebook following of any
South African musician with over half a million fans.......................................................................................................
FLAVOUR N’ABANIA, AGE- 30, NIGERIAN, MUSICIAN
Better known by his stage name Flavour N’abania (or simply Flavour),
is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and performer.
Flavour gained world wide acclaim for his Ashawo and Nwa Baby singles
which till date still enjoy air plays. Just as the African continent
has been held spell bound by Flavour’s infectious sound and powerful
stage performance, so has he also grasped our attention with his larger
than life abs, that is finely sculpted and chiseled by presumably
hundreds of hours spent in the gym. Flavour keeps his millions of fans
always guessing with his now famous bathroom selfies.......................................................................................................
DIDIER DROGBA- AGE: 36, IVORY COAST, FOOTBALLER
Didier Drogba,
is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays for Chelsea in the
Premier League as a striker, and is the all-time top scorer and former
captain of the Ivory Coast national team. He is best known for his
career at Chelsea, for whom he scored more goals than any other foreign
player and is currently the club’s fourth highest goal scorer of all
time. In October 2012, he was voted by Chelsea supporters as the club’s
greatest player ever. He has also been named African Footballer of the
Year twice, winning the accolade in 2006 and 2009.
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CORNEL FREDERICKS, AGE- 24, SOUTH AFRICAN, ATHLETE
Cornel
Fredericks is a South African track and field athlete who competes in
the 400 metres hurdles. He won the 2014 Commonwealth Games gold in the
400m hurdles with a dominant display at Hampden Park. Fredericks
finished in 48.50 seconds, ahead of Trinidad & Tobago’s Jehue Gordon
(48.75) and the Bahamas’ Jeffery Gibson (48.78).......................................................................................................
GAIL MABALANE, AGE: 29, SOUTH AFRICAN, ACTRESS
Gail
Mabalane is a South African singer and actress best known as one of the
Top 14 finalists on the sixth season of the M-Net reality competition
Idols, in 2010.Gail, who auditioned in Bloemfontein, was born and bred
in the town of Kimberley. In 2001, she made the Top 5 of Miss Teen SA,
and she also enjoyed a stint in Johannesburg as a Kaizer Chiefs
cheerleader. in 2012, she became the face of beauty giant Olay, and her
career has since skyrocketed.......................................................................................................
LUNGA SHABALALA, AGE: 25, SOUTH AFRICAN, TV PERSONALITY
Lunga
Shabalala is a South African socialite, model, television presenter and
actor best known for taking over as the host of the SABC1 music show
Selimathunzi from Kaos Matu after winning a countrywide presenter
search, in 2011. He is considered South Africa’s ultimate bad boy, as
his toned abs have become signature brand which earned him the coveted
South African rep for Calvin Klein men’s underwear line after a
nationwide search, his career has since been growing in leaps and bounds
just as his appeal moves further beyond the South African shore.......................................................................................................
ASSOU EKOTTO, AGE: 30, CAMEROONIAN, FOOTBALLER
Assou
Ekotto is a professional footballer who plays for English club
Tottenham Hotspur. Born in France, he plays internationally for the
Cameroon national team. Since arriving at Tottenham, Assou-Ekotto has
pursued an interest in the local community and its inhabitants,
expressing a “great sense of connection to Tottenham”. He carries an
Oyster card and frequents the London Underground, and often walks with
Tottenham supporters towards the stadium before home matches. During the
London riots, the outspoken footballer suggested in an interview with
BBC Sport that his colleagues do more to mitigate geopolitical issues,
such as donating a hundredth of their salaries towards local causes.......................................................................................................
YVONNE NELSON, AGE: 28, GHANAIAN, ACTRESS
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Yvonne Nelson is an
award winning actress, model, film producer and entrepreneur. Yvonne, a
former Miss Ghana contestant, shot to fame after a big-screen role in Princess Tyra and Playboy.
She quickly became a household name on the African continent. She
arguably has the best legs in the industry which goes on for
miles.Yvonne Nelson is not only a winner in the beach front, but she has
almost become a style icon in her native West Africa, with her almost
cult-like following on instagram where she constantly updates her
nearly 250,000 IG followers with daily personal outfits pictures.
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ALEK WEK, AGE: 37, SOUTH SUDANESE, SUPER MODEL
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Alek Wek is a South
Sudanese British supermodel, designer and philanthropist who began her
fashion career at the age of 18 in 1995. As the first black model whose
looks did not conform to Caucasian aesthetics, she has been hailed for
her influence on the perception of beauty in the fashion industry. Wek
has modelled, either on runways or in print advertisements, for Issey
Miyake, Moschino, Victoria’s Secret, Clinique, Shiatzy Chen, John
Galliano, Chanel, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Jasper Conran, Alexander
McQueen, Givenchy, Armani, Fendi and Christian Dior. She has also been
featured in articles in American and British Vogue. And has been on the
cover of Elle magazine, i-D Magazine, Canadian, German and Japanese
Vogue, Cosmopolitan magazine, Glamour magazine,Forbes Magazine Africa, and Ebony magazine.
Dark-skinned models were rare, if not unheard of, in the high fashion industry. Wek was “the first black model who didn’t conform to a Caucasian aesthetic, the first with an uncompromising, sub-Saharan beauty… her industry saw her as new and exotic – a savage beauty.” As a result, Wek’s mainstream success was celebrated by black women all over the world. Oprah Winfrey commented that “if [Wek] had been on the cover of a magazine when I was growing up, I would have had a different concept of who I was.”
Dark-skinned models were rare, if not unheard of, in the high fashion industry. Wek was “the first black model who didn’t conform to a Caucasian aesthetic, the first with an uncompromising, sub-Saharan beauty… her industry saw her as new and exotic – a savage beauty.” As a result, Wek’s mainstream success was celebrated by black women all over the world. Oprah Winfrey commented that “if [Wek] had been on the cover of a magazine when I was growing up, I would have had a different concept of who I was.”
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TIWA SAVAGE, AGE: 34, NIGERIAN, MUSICIAN
Known by her stage name Tiwa Savage,
is a Nigerian singer-songwriter. The Pepsi ambassador, is currently
signed to Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Mavin Records. She co-wrote the
track “Collard Greens & Cornbread” on Fantasia Barrino’s
Grammy-nominated album Back to Me. Savage was featured on Solar Plexus,
a compilation album that was released a day after the establishment of
Mavin Records. On 3 July 2013, she released her debut studio album Once Upon a Time.
Savage sings in English and Yoruba. As a singer, her achievements
include one MTV Africa Music Award, one The Headies Award, one Channel O
Music Video Award, one Nigeria Music Video Award, and two City People
Entertainment Awards, and a BET nomination for Best International Act
among others. On the release of her now infamous music video ‘Wanted’,
Tiwa trended across the continent for weeks, receiving a continent wide
media backlash for the sexually provocative music video.......................................................................................................
BURNA BOY, AGE: 23, NIGERIAN, MUSICIAN
Burna Boy is
an amazing Nigerian vocalist with his unique sound blends Dance-hall,
Afrobeat, R&B and Hip-Hop into one tightly knit package. His songs
span from ballads full of depth, sometimes to controversial subject
matter as well as, his Dance-hall tendency implies, songs that are just
meant to get you in the mood for the groove. Burna Boy is a refreshingly
goofy, ultimate bad boy, with his near nonchalant yet infectious
disposition, though a musician he is however a style trendsetter, as any
clothing or accessory worn by him, becomes almost a nationwide trend
amongst the hippy- pop culture savvy young Nigerians, be it a tattoo,
sunglasses or tee.Burna Boy is known for his smooth Patois-influenced Dance-hall crooning, and most especially for his hit singles“Abeg Abeg Abeg”, “Party Wit Me”, “Firewood”, “Touch Your Toes”, “Like To Party” and the Davido-assisted “Trumpet”.......................................................................................................
VIMBAI MUTINHIRI, AGE: 27, ZIMBABWEAN, TV PERSONALITY
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Vimbai Mutinhiri is a Zimbabwean model and television personality. She was born in Harare, Zimbabwe but raised in Belgrade, Serbia and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to participating in Big Brother Africa Amplified in 2011, she studied in South Africa graduating from the University of Cape Town with an honors degree in politics, philosophy and economics. Vimbai is perhaps, one of the very few who actually successfully built a burgeoning career outside of the fickle Big Brother Africa fame. She has gone on to host major African events, notably the first ever Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards broadcast live to 54 African countries from Lagos, Nigeria. Currently the Face of Castle Milk Stout (Cameroon), she has also been on the runway at the SA Fashion Week and the Zimbabwe Fashion Week.
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BRENDA WAIRIMU, AGE: 23, KENYAN, ACTRESS
Brenda
Wairimu is a Kenyan television actress on Africa Magic’s Kona series,
she is a budding starlet who seems to be shooting for the stars.
Brenda’s mainstream appeal is inimitable- even as she is presently one
of Africa’s ‘IT’ girls of the moment. With her talent, Brenda should
spear-head the next generation’s screen goddesses.......................................................................................................
DILLISH MATHEWS, AGE: 23, NAMIBIAN, BBA REALITY STAR
Dillish
Mathews is the winner of the 2013 Big Brother Africa reality show, even
though she is yet to pick a definite career path, as she is yet to hit
her first real breakthrough, we are however hopeful that in the nearest
future, she will grace our screens once more, either as an actress or
Television personality, either way, we will cautiously keep our tongues
in-check as Dillish is the mother of surprises, just as she turned from
the BBA’s underdog into its eventual winner, there is definitely no
telling what this starlet can or can’t do.......................................................................................................
JOSELYN DUMAS, AGE: 34, GHANAIAN, ACTRESS
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Joselyn Dumas is a Ghanaian television host and actress. In 2014 she starred in A Northern Affair, a role that earned her a Ghana Movie Award and an Africa Movie Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Joselyn Dumas is indeed a sight to behold. She shot to continental fame as the curvaceous bombshell bride in Lynxx’s music video, and since then her career has never been the same and so has been her appeal which transcends borders and nationalities, she appeals equally to west Africans as she does the Southern part of Africa.
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BLESSING OKAGBARE, AGE: 25, NIGERIAN, ATHLETE
Blessing
Okagbare is a record breaking Nigerian athlete, who participated in
both the 100m and 200m races at the 2014 Common Wealth Games in Glasgow.
She made it through to the finals of the 100m and won with a time of
10.85, breaking the games record of 10.91 seconds set by Debbie
Ferguson-McKenzie 12 years earlier at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in
Manchester. Okagbare also won the gold medal in the 200, with a time of
22.25 seconds. In doing so, she became the fourth woman to win the 100m
and 200m double at the Commonwealth Games.......................................................................................................
FALLY IPUPA- AGE: 36, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, MUSICIAN
Fally Ipupa is
a Congolese singer-songwriter, dancer, philanthropist, and guitarist
from Kinshasa, he was part of the band of Koffi Olomidé, Quartier Latin
International, from 1999 to 2006 before starting a solo career. His
first solo album was Droit cheminreleased in 2006, which went on to sell over 100,000 units, and his second album Arsenal de Belles Melodies (A2BM) was
released in 2009. In 2007, Ipupa won the Kora Awards for Best Artist or
Group from Central Africa. In 2010, Fally Ipupa won the MTV Africa
Music Awards 2010 for Best Video (for Sexy Dance)
and Best Francophone. He won the urban awards for best African artist.
Ipupa was nominated in the Best Live Act category at the 2014 MTV Africa
Music Awards. He released an album titled kosa leka in 2014.......................................................................................................
IAN MUGOYA, AGE: 24, KENYAN, TV PERSONALITY
Ian Mugiya,
is the sexy Kenyan Television personality, who is referred to by the
Kenyan media as “the ladies man” . With such a title comes expectations
from his millions of Kenyan fans who are struck by his charm and
good-looks. Ian like the many young people on this list is slowly
reaching beyond the shows of Kenya, looking to export his East African
‘je ne sais quoi’ to the rest of the African continent.
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