AGE: unknown
OCCUPATION: Sudanese-born cell-phone magnate
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: He created a multimillion-dollar prize to reward good political governance in Africa. (Last year it went to former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano.)
CON: There's still not a whole lot of good political governance in Africa. And is that the way to discourage corruption: with bribes?