Avance Media has released a list of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans in the year 2022.
21-year-old Ghanaian musician, Black Sherif made it onto the list for the first time after an impressive year that saw him adjudged ‘Entertainment Personality of the Year’ at the 2022 Entertainment Achievement Awards (EAAs) organized by Citi TV.
Subsequently, ‘Blacko’ secured a nomination at the BET Awards and won the Hip Hop Act of the Year Awards at the 2023 Soundcity MVP Awards.
Following the release of his debut album, The Villain I Never Was, which had songs such as Kwaku The Traveller, Black Sherif has seen a surge in his streaming numbers, becoming the first Ghanaian to hit 200 million streams on Boomplay.
