20. Sheila Afari
Vital Stats:
- Business: Sheila Afari Group
- Established: 2012
Up-and-coming fact:
Sheila Afari started her public relations company with no PR background, just an entrepreneurial hunch that she could succeed in this field.
A 2017 nominee for Africa’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government Awards, Afari has built a name for herself for the communications work she has done building the brands of some of Africa’s biggest personalities with her PR company, Sheila Afari Public Relations. She has serviced clients in territories such as the UK, New York, Los Angeles, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Botswana, Mozambique, Cameroon, Zimbabwe and South Africa. With well-developed advancements in opening up satellite offices in New York and Ghana, Afari is someone to look out for as she sets to position African brands on a global scale.