Twitter's 12 Most-Followed African Celebrities in Entertainment

Last week South African TV personality Bonang Matheba joined the small group of African celebrities in entertainment to amass a million followers on Twitter. How exciting for her! So awesome! 

Per Adweek "Celebrities and brands with millions of followers influence have a huge impact on the infrastructure of the network and can make and break websites, products and services and well-timed and enthusiastic tweets and recommendations." So essentially the more followers you have - the more influence and money you can potentially get. So who are the other celebrities in the million plus club? 

See the list below for the most followed celebrities in entertainment from Africa...



1. Singer Akon  - 5.7M
Country - raised in Missouri but his parents are from Senegal

2. Rapper Wale - 4.1M
Wale is a Nigerian American

3. YouTuber Caspar Lee- 2.5M
South Africa

4. Comedian Trevor Noah - 2.1M
South Africa

5. Actor, singer and YouTuber Troye Sivan- 2M
South Africa

6. Afrobeats singer WizKid - 1.5M
Nigeria 

7. Naija singer Davido - 1.2M
Nigerai

8. Kokomaster D'Banj - 1.1M
Nigeria

9. Don Jazzy -1.08M
Nigeria

10. 2Face Idibia - 1.04M
Nigeria

11. Banky W - 1.01M
Nigeria

12. TV Personality Bonang Matheba - 1.01M
South Africa