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1. Rafael Marques de Morais, Angola, leading anti-corruption campaigner and
award winning investigative journalist
2. John Githongo, Kenya, publisher, leading anti-corruption campaigner and
award winning anti-corruption activist
3. Kwasi H. Prempeh, Ghana, Executive Director of Center for Democratic
Development
4. Farida Nabourema, Togo, Executive Director of Togolese Civil League
5. Leyla Hussein, Somalia, Women’s Rights & Health Campaigner,
psychotherapist, writer and founder of the Dahlia Project
6. Maina Kiai, Kenya, founder of the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC)
and former UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association
7. Maaza Mengiste, Ethiopia, award-winning writer of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
8. Iva Cabral, Cape Verde, Chancellor of Lusófona [Lusophone] University and
daughter of Amílcar Cabral
9. Belabbès Benkredda, Algeria, CEO and Founder of the Munathara Initiative,
the Arab world’s largest online and television debate forum highlighting
voices of youth, women and marginalized communities.
10. Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, Uganda, a leading LGBT rights activist,
founder and executive director of the LGBT rights organization Freedom &
Roam Uganda, 2011 recipient of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights
Defenders
11. Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, Uganda, musician, member of
parliament and youth leader recognized throughout East Africa
12. Tundu Lissu, Tanzania, lawyer, CHADEMA politician, member of parliament
and former president of the Tanganyika Law Society
13. Amr Waked, Egypt, award winning actor, best known for his role in Syriana
14. José Eduardo Agualusa, Angola, award winning writer, finalist in the 2016
Man Booker International Prize for his seminal work A General Theory of
Oblivion
15. Nasser Weddady, Mauritania, leading civil rights activist, consultant and co-
editor of Arab Spring Dreams.
16. Chiké Frankie Edozien, Nigeria, writer and professor of journalism at New
York University
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17. Emmanuel Iduma, Nigeria, author
18. Mona Eltahawy, Egypt, author and journalist
19. Mireille Tushiminina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gender & Equality
advocate
20. Felix Agbor Nkhongo, Cameroon, Director of the Centre for Human Rights
and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA) and leading human rights defender
21. Boniface Mwangi, Kenya, democracy activist, Ukweli political party founder,
photographer and artist
22. Adeyanju Deji, Nigeria, leading democracy activist and human rights
defender
23. Alieu Bah, The Gambia, leading democracy activist and human rights
defender
24. Tutu Alicante, Equatorial Guinea, leading democracy activist and Executive
Director of Equatorial Guinea Justice (EG Justice)
25. Andrea Ngombet Malewa, Congo Republic, Global Coordinator of the
Sassoufit Collective
26. Roukaya Kasenally, Mauritius, CEO of African Media Initiative
27. Abdelrahman Mansour, Egypt, Executive Director of Open Transformation
Lab, leading human rights defender and journalist
28. Reem Abbas, Sudan, journalist and leading human rights defender
29. Moussa Kondo, Mali, journalist, CEO and founder of the weekly L’Express de
Bamako, anti-corruption crusader, Country Director of Accountability Lab
Mali, 2015 Mandela Washington Fellow, 2018 Obama Foundation Fellow.
30. Ericino de Salema, Mozambique, Director of the Electoral Institute for
Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA), academic, lawyer and journalist
31. Jestina Mukoko, Zimbabwe, leading human rights activist and Director of
the Zimbabwe Peace Initiative
32. William Amanzuru, Uganda, environmental rights defender, founder of
Friends of Zoka, winner of the EU Human Rights Defenders’ Award 2019
33. Miguel de Barros, Guinea-Bissau, sociologist and Executive Director of the
environmental NGO Tiniguena
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71. Mohamed Soltan, Egypt, Executive Director, the Freedom Initiative
72. Memory Banda, Malawi, children’s rights activist
73. Ali Amar, Morocco, veteran journalist, co-founder and director of online
news outlet Le Desk
74. Ahmed Gatnash, Libya, co-founder & VP Operations, Kawaakibi Foundation
75. Mohamed Keita, Mali, Pan African rights advocate
76. Norman Tjombe, Namibia, human rights lawyer and activist
77. Uyapo Ndadi, Botswana, human rights lawyer, activist, and founder of the
Ndadi Law Firm
78. Phil ya Nangoloh, Namibia, human rights activist, monitor and Executive
Director of NamRights Inc
79. Jacqueline Moudeina, Chad, prominent award-winning lawyer and human
rights activist
80. Rosmon Zokoue, Central African Republic, journalist, blogger and activist
81. Ahmed Gatnash, Libya, co-founder & VP of Operations, Kawaakibi
Foundation
82. Anas Aramayew Anas, Ghana, Africa’s leading investigative journalist and
private investigator
83. Boubacar Dialo, Niger, Editor, Liberation newspaper
84. Abdourahman Waberi, Djibouti, acclaimed novelist, essayist, academic and
short story writer, human rights activist, professor of literature at George
Washington University
85. Doudou Dia, Senegal, Executive Director, Goree Institute, Center for
Democracy, Development and Culture in Africa
86. Alain Mabanckou, Congo, novelist, journalist, poet and academic
87. Francis Kpatindé, Benin, journalist, former editor-in-chief of the
newsweekly Jeune Afrique and former spokesman for the United Nations High
Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
88. Mustafa Haji Abdinur, Somalia, award-winning journalist
89. Thembo Kash, Democratic Republic of Congo, award-winning cartoonist
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90. Damien Glez, Burkina Faso, award-winning editorial cartoonist
91. Ahmed Abdallah, Comoros, journalist
92. Anton Harber, South Africa, former journalist with the Rand Daily Mail until
its closure by the apartheid government, co-founder and editor of the Weekly
Mail (now The Mail & Guardian) and Professor of Journalism at the University
of the Witwatersrand
93. John-Allan Namu, Kenya, award-winning investigative journalist, co-founder
of Africa Uncensored, 2017 Desmond Tutu Fellow
94. Alice Nkom, Cameroon, leading human rights lawyer, defender of rights of
the LGBT community
95. Mouctar Bah, Guinea, veteran journalist
96. Andrew Feinstein, South Africa, former ANC MP, Executive Director of
Corruption Watch UK, author of The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms
Trade
97. William Rasoanaivo, Madagascar, award-winning political cartoonist
98. Claudia Gastrow, South Africa, anthropologist, Univeristy of Johannesburg
99. Motlatsi Thabane, Lesotho, professor of History, University of e-Swatini
100. Cyriac Gbogou, Ivory Coast, blogger, co-founder of O’Village and key
actor in the new technology sector in the country
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