MTN wins Grand Prix: Africa’s Best Brand. Apple #1 Most Valuable Brand in Africa.
Samsung #1 Most Admired Non-African Brand. Dangote is Brand Builder of the Year. A Lifetime
Achievement Award for Econet Founder/Chairman Strive Masiyiwa. Yswara, Konga and Kisua recognized as
Emerging African Brands.

Brand Africa 100: (L-R) Lazarus Jacobs (Partner- Paragon Investment & Master of Ceremony), James
Woods (Brand Africa -Youth Counsel), Larry Annetts (Chief Marketing Officer- MTN ), Milton Nkosi
(Analyst Africa Bureau-BBC ), Omar Ben Yedder (Publisher African Business & Brand Africa Trustee,
Samuel Mensah (CEO-Kisua), Thebe Ikalafeng (Founder & Chairman- Brand Africa), Swaady Martin (CEO-
Yswara) and Pratiksha Jekison (Senior Manager: MTN).
Brand Africa Counsel members representing South Africa, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mozambique,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, The Gambia, Tunisia, Namibia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria among
pan-African guests at the 4th annual Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands awards event on 22
October 2015 at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Members of the Pan-African Brand Africa Network, Trustees and Patrons at the Brand Africa 100:
Africa’s Best Brands in Johannesburg on 22 October 2015: (L-R)
Lazarus Jacobs (Namibia), Julian Kiganda (Uganda/USA), Professor Alinah Segobye(South Africa), Nonye
Mpho Omotola (Nigeria/South Africa), Dr Jackie Chimhanzi (Zimbabwe/South Africa), Omar Ben Yedder
(Tunisia/UK), Adama Sanneh (The Gambia/Italy), Professor John Tesha (Tanzania), Samuel Mensah
(Ghana/South Africa), James Wood (Malawi/UK), Swaady Martin(Cote D’Ivoire/South Afrca), Ben Antonio
(Mozambique), Thebe Ikalafeng (South Africa).