Interesting people from Africa

What a beautiful story.

Yazmin Nanji (Kenya), Internet Entrepreneur. The CEO of the Nairobi-based MailAfrica, the world's first African language e-mail engine, which in 2001 continued to create e-mail databases for various African languages. By October, among the languages taken into the Internet era were Oromo from Ethiopia, Hausa, Ibo, and Yoruba from Nigeria, and Ewe from Ghana.

Nanji was, at year's end involved with a new, non-profit web site called AfricaLive, intended to create a virtual community across Africa.

This was more than just a business investment --- it is the first serious attempt to adapt African languages and the African heritage to the 21st century world of information technology.

Molotlegi Nat Mokgosi became the first forex dealer in South Africa. The Apartheid regime had reserved corporate banking for whites. The African Bank was the first and only black bank then. The Apartheid State President withdrew the Bank's forex licence. The government feared the likes of Mokgosi and Gabby Magomola who had a close affinity with the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, and Curtis Nkondo of the ANC; Victor Mtutuzeli Tyalimpi who had obtained a Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators (CIS); a qualification that Black people were not allowed to study for.

Mooya Chilube was born on the 9th September 1947 in a rural village in a place called Kasiya, west of the tiny township of Pemba in Zambia.

He was born into a Roman Catholic Christian family and brought up, therefore, as a Catholic especially having gone for his academic education at Christian schools such as St Peters in Kasiya and the nation-wide famous St Canisius College at Chikuni within his home area, a Roman Catholic Missionary Centre run by the Jesuit Fathers.

For a person who saw his parents-to-be, beforehand at the end of his journey back to Earth from his starry home planet, his childhood, school and even working adult life has all been but a spiritual and miraculous experience. He had been a Disciple, right from birth, of the LOGOS Masters of the Universal flock of Spiritual Travellers. Among these, the Son Christ Jesus Joseph and above all, his own ageless Teacher the Cosmic Father Dove Christ, the Lord Maitreya, then of Changier Monastery in the Himalayas, whom he was to succeed later, on the early morning of 28th July 1996, to become the Cosmic triune person of Lord LOGOSOGO, the LOGOS and Cosmic Eagle, coming fifth - but only in transit, upon the shortest Cosmic Lineage.

Mooya has written many books, amonst them the LOGOS Cosmic Holy Books, New World Order, The African Renaissance and many more.

www.logos-im.org.za

A recent interview with South African grammy award nominated pianist Petronel Malan http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/a-13-2009-10-05-voa28.html

George Lilanga was born in Northern Mozambique (probably 1934) and passed away in June 2005. He lived in Dar es Salaam/Tanzania and belongs to the most important contemporary African artists. His works are established in the spirit world of the Makonde tribe and standing out due to an own, unmistakable style. Lilanga can be regarded as a universal artist. He is sculptor and painter. His work covers sculptures, paintings, drawings, etchings, batiks and metal work. By a number of expositions Lilangas works have become known to the art lovers and collectors in Europe, America and Asia.

Authentic works of the artist can be seen here:
www.lilanga.info
www.flickr.com/photos/21416772@N03
www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1858&id=1344502391&l=ed1d83d5fc

Africa’s most decorated football star, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and founder of the Kanu Heart Foudation, Nigerian born Nwanko Kanu, shares his opinion on how an African country can win victory at 2010. Kanu speaks about his own journey to international fame and how other young Africans can reach the same success.

According to Kanu, “…the good thing with Africa is that whenever any country is playing, the other countries are supporting it, which is very very massive and very very good for the continent. So right now, this I believe, this is the time we can really make an impact in the World Cup. When I say an impact, either winning the World Cup or being in the finals.”

For an insight into the future of African football and to hear more from this football legend, watch Kanu on CNN’s African Voices on Saturday the 6th of June at 13h30 and again at 20h30.
http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/africanvoices/

Or learn more about his heart foundation and how you can help at
http://www.kanuheartfoundationng.com/

Harold Chukwudumebi Monulumiya was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1974 to a diplomat father and a flight attendant mother.
Harold was educated at Brambletye Prep, and Radley College, both in the UK, before returning to Nigeria where he attended Command Military School, Ibadan.
Harold later received training at the British Institute of Marketing, specializing in retail and hospitality.
Harold started his career as a jeweler selling Swiss master timepieces in London in 1998 before establishing a luxury goods company in 2001.
In 2004, based in Los Angeles, CA, Harold focused his attention on custom jewelry manufacture.
Harold’s jewelry is influenced by his West African heritage.
He celebrates his Igbo background; a group of free thinkers, renown for their entrepreneurial spirit.
In jewelry making Harold captures his love of Africa, his thirst for innovation and passion for value creation.
Each piece is collectible and conveys a story of the wealth and power of the African continent.
Harold’s diverse clientele are individuals who see the world as a global village and are attracted to what brings people together rather than what sets them apart.

For more information visit; www.haroldmonu.com

Simi Belo, Nigerian, invented, patented and launched the ‘SimiWeave™’, a revolutionary type of hair piece designed for black women, in London, UK, in 2004.

Heralded as ‘a new invention set to take the hairdressing world by storm’ by industry-leading magazine Black Beauty & Hair, the ‘SimiWeave™’ has been an outstanding success amongst customers, hair and beauty experts, the media and retailers alike. Many celebrities have been wearing the SimiWeave™ in secret, but because it looks so real, instead of revealing that they are using hair extensions, these icons of the TV, film, music and fashion industries have been passing it off as their own hair at every opportunity!

Simi, her patented design and her company Imiis, have already won six major awards and were finalists for six more including 'International Business Woman of the Year', 'Rising Star of the Year’, 'Black & Minority Ethnic Business Of The Year’, ‘Top Ten Pan-African Women’s Inventor / Innovator' and ‘Top Ten British Female Inventor / Innovator’.

Please visit www.SimiBelo.com and www.SimiWeave.com for details.