Dangote, Chimamanda, Arunma Oteh Nominated for Forbes Africa Person of the Year

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Forbes Magazine has nominated Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote, and Director-General, Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission, Arunma Oteh‎ for the Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2014 award.

Also nominated is multiple award winning writer, Chimamanda Adichie; Thuli Madonsela, a South African who helped draft the country’s constitution in 1994; and Donald Kaberuka, a Rwandan economist and the president of the African Development Bank.

This year’s Forbes Africa Person Of The Year Awards will take place on the 4th of December 2014‎.

The winner will be “the individual who, for better or worse, has had the most influence on business on the year gone by”, Forbes Africa wrote on its site.