Eyecandy: Lance Gross

Lance Darnell Gross, Actor, born July 8 1981

The sexiest men in hip hop (reloaded)

On a lazy Friday night, browsing the internet with Afromag's newly appointed beauty editor Helen, we came across a slide show of hip hop's sexiest men on Hip Hop Wired. Thinking this would be our weekend eye candy, we discovered, to our greatest shock, pictures of Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J and.......... Jay Z! Really? We had to put things right. Being sexy is not about trying too hard, that's why the likes of 50 Cent and Nelly should not come near this ranking. So here's Afromag's official top 10 ranking of hip hop's sexiest men. Tell us if we forgot anyone.

10.Ludacris - for the craziness

9.Bow Wow - sorry but he's cute (and we're not judging his sound)

8.Layzie Bone - wrongfully overlooked

7.DMX - Just raw

6.Pharrell Williams - for the swag

5.Tupac - do we need to explain?

4.Warren G - The guy next door (we wish!)

3.NAS - The Mind

2.Common - The Body

1.Method Man - l'Homme Fort

Tidjane Thiam, first black boss of a FTSE 100 company

Tidjane Thiam was today named by the Evening Standard, one of the 100 most influential Londoners. Born in 1962 in Ivory Coast, Tidjane received degrees from three of the most prestigious engineering and business schools of France: Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole des Mines and INSEAD. He is an ex-minister of planning and Development of Ivory Coast and is today Chief Executive of insurance company Prudential. He's also the first black boss of a FTSE 100 company.

He is a member of the Africa Progress Panel with the likes of Tony Blair and Kofi Annan.

When asked about how it felt to be the first black CEO of a FTSE 100 company, he answered: "I don’t see myself as being particularly different from anybody else. I focus on being successful.

"It’s actually funny that when I was appointed CFO that nobody said first black CFO of a FTSE 100 company. One of my worst jokes has been to say well I’m also right handed and I’m also six-four and these are in the same bucket of things that have nothing to do with what I do."

Read his interview in the Financial Times