Entertainment

Bonang Matheba

Bonang Dorothy Matheba

Bonang Dorothy Matheba is a South African media personality and entrepreneur known for television and radio presenting, major live-event hosting, television production and the House of BNG beverage brand.

Bovi

Bovi is a Nigerian stand-up comedian, writer and screen entertainer whose work also spans acting, producing and event hosting. His notable projects include the solo comedy show Man on Fire and the screen productions Visa on Arrival, Back to School, It’s Her Day and My Village…

Brad Pitt

William Bradley Pitt

William Bradley Pitt, professionally known as Brad Pitt, is an American actor and film producer. His public significance rests on a feature-film career spanning prominent acting roles and award-recognized production work, including an acting Oscar for Once upon a Time...in…

Brain Jotter

Chukwuebuka Emmanuel Amuzie

Chukwuebuka Emmanuel Amuzie, professionally known as Brain Jotter, is a Nigerian comedian and digital content creator known for short online comedy skits. His public profile expanded further in 2024 when a skit using a Mike Ejeagha song helped set off the widely circulated “Gwo…

Broda Shaggi

Samuel Animashaun Perry

Samuel Animashaun Perry, professionally known as Broda Shaggi, is a Nigerian comedian, skit maker and actor who became widely known through short social-media comedy videos. A University of Lagos Creative Arts alumnus, he has also received Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards…

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Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron is a South African-born, naturalized American actor and producer known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Monster. She is also the founder of Denver and Delilah Productions and the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, and the United Nations lists…

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Charlotte Tilbury

Charlotte Emma Bow Tilbury

Charlotte Tilbury is a British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur who founded Charlotte Tilbury Beauty. As of August 2026, she was identified as the company's President, Chair and Chief Creative Officer, as well as its sole founder.

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Chidi Mokeme

Chidi Mokeme is a Nigerian actor and television host known for anchoring multiple editions of Gulder Ultimate Search and for playing Scar in the Netflix series Shanty Town. His performance in Shanty Town earned him a nomination at the ninth Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist and essayist known for books including Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, and Dream Count. Her wider public profile includes major literary awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the TED talk The Danger of a Single…

Chinedu Ikedieze

Chinedu Ikedieze is a Nigerian actor and comic performer widely known as Aki, the character he played in the 2002 film Aki na Ukwa. His long-running screen partnership with actor Osita Iheme, known as Aki and Pawpaw, is a prominent part of his career in Nollywood.

Chinonye Chukwu

Chinonye Chukwu is a Nigerian-American filmmaker best known for writing and directing Clemency, winner of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival's U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, and for directing the 2022 feature Till.

Chioma Adeleke

Chioma Avril Rowland Adeleke

Chioma Avril Rowland Adeleke, publicly known as Chef Chi, is a Nigerian chef and public figure known for her culinary persona and her marriage to musician David Adedeji Adeleke, known as Davido.

Chioma Chukwuka

Chioma Chukwuka is a Nigerian actor, producer and director known for her work in Nollywood film and television. Her career includes producing On Bended Knees and winning the AMVCA 11 Best Lead Actress award for the 2024 drama series Seven Doors.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor is a London-born actor and filmmaker of Nigerian family heritage whose career spans film, television and theatre. He is particularly known for portraying Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave and for writing and directing the feature films The Boy Who Harnessed…

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Edward Nolan

Christopher Edward Nolan is a London-born filmmaker known for directing films including Memento, the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Dunkirk and Oppenheimer. He won the Academy Award for Directing for Oppenheimer and, as of August 2026, served as president of the Directors…

Connie Ferguson

Connie Ferguson is a Southern African television actor and producer best known for playing Karabo Moroka in Generations and for co-establishing Ferguson Films with Shona Ferguson. Her later work includes The Queen, Kings of Jo'Burg and Heart of the Hunter.

Cubana Chief Priest

Pascal Chibuike Okechukwu

Pascal Chibuike Okechukwu, publicly known as Cubana Chief Priest, is a Nigerian entrepreneur, nightlife promoter and entertainment personality. He became prominent through the Cubana Group and later established Club Xhrine in Owerri.

Cynthia Erivo

Cynthia Erivo is a British actor and singer, born in south London to Nigerian parents, whose career spans musical theatre, film, television and recorded music. She is particularly known for playing Celie in The Color Purple, Harriet Tubman in Harriet and Elphaba in Wicked.

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Damson Idris

Damson Idris is a British-Nigerian actor from Peckham in south London. He is best known for playing Franklin Saint in FX's Snowfall and has also held major film roles in Outside the Wire and F1 The Movie.

Daniel Etim Effiong

Daniel Etim Effiong is a Nigerian actor and filmmaker known for screen roles including Plan B and Netflix's Òlòtūré: The Journey, as well as directing work on Skin and The Herd.

Dave Chappelle

David Khari Webber Chappelle

Dave Chappelle is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer best known for co-creating, writing, producing, and starring in the sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show and for his subsequent stand-up specials.

David Attenborough

David Frederick Attenborough

David Attenborough is a British broadcaster, natural historian and former BBC executive whose natural-history documentaries have brought scientific and environmental subjects to broad public audiences. His later public work has emphasized biodiversity loss, environmental…

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David Oyelowo

David Oyelowo is a British-Nigerian actor, producer and director known for Shakespearean theatre, his portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, and his acting and production work in film and television. He made his feature directorial debut with The Water Man.

Denola Grey

Denola Grey is the professional name of Adenola Adepetun, a Nigerian fashion consultant and style personality whose public career also includes television presentation, content creation and acting. His documented work spans fashion consulting, EbonyLife TV's EL NOW and screen…

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