Vote for the top 100 intellectuals

It's here in the Foreign Policy magazine. You get to choose up to 5 in the list.

My list comprises : the Ghanean economist George Ayittey, the Nigerian playwriter Wole Soyinka, the American journalist Malcom Gladwell, for the rest I am still making my mind.

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