Aliko Dangote Biography: Net Worth, Refinery & Business Empire
Aliko Mohammad Dangote is a Nigerian businessman and industrialist who founded and chairs the Dangote Group, Africa’s largest industrial conglomerate, spanning cement, sugar, salt, and, most recently, oil refining. For more than a decade, he has held the position of Africa’s wealthiest person, a status built primarily on his controlling stake in Dangote Cement, the […]
Patrice Motsepe Biography: Mining Fortune, CAF & Net Worth
Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe is a South African businessman, lawyer, and football administrator who founded African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), one of South Africa’s largest diversified mining companies, and became the first Black African to appear on the Forbes global billionaires list in 2008. Beyond mining, he serves as non-executive chairman of Harmony Gold, deputy chairman of […]
Strive Masiyiwa Biography: Econet, Cassava & Net Worth
Strive Masiyiwa is a Zimbabwean businessman, engineer, and philanthropist who founded and chairs Econet Global and Cassava Technologies, two of Africa’s most significant telecommunications and digital infrastructure groups. Widely known as Zimbabwe’s first and only billionaire for much of the past two decades, he built his fortune after winning a landmark five-year legal battle against […]
Tony Elumelu Biography: UBA, Heirs Holdings & Net Worth
Anthony Onyemaechi Elumelu is a Nigerian economist, banker, and investor who chairs Heirs Holdings, Transcorp Group, and United Bank for Africa (UBA), three of the companies at the center of his sprawling pan-African business portfolio. He built his reputation in 1997 by leading a group of investors to acquire a struggling Lagos bank, transforming it […]
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji Biography: The Man Behind Two African Unicorns
Iyinoluwa Samuel Aboyeji is a Nigerian entrepreneur and investor who co-founded two of Africa’s few unicorn-valued technology companies before turning thirty: Andela, a global talent network for software developers, and Flutterwave, one of the continent’s leading payments infrastructure companies. Rather than remaining at the helm of either company long-term, Aboyeji stepped away from both within […]
Shola Akinlade Biography: How He Built Paystack Into a Fintech Giant
Shola Akinlade is a Nigerian software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Paystack alongside Ezra Olubi, building it into one of Africa’s most significant financial technology companies before US payments giant Stripe acquired it in 2020 for a reported $200 million, one of the largest startup acquisitions in African tech history at the time. As Paystack’s […]
Mark Shuttleworth Biography: From Thawte to Space to Ubuntu
Mark Richard Shuttleworth is a South African and British entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system, and as the first African to travel into space. He built his initial fortune as a student at the University of Cape Town, founding internet security company […]
Mike Adenuga Biography: Globacom, Conoil & Net Worth
Chief Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr. is a Nigerian businessman who built one of Africa’s largest privately held fortunes across telecommunications, oil exploration, and banking, while remaining one of the continent’s most notoriously press-shy billionaires. He founded Conoil Producing, the first indigenous Nigerian company to strike oil in commercial quantities, and later launched Globacom, […]
Femi Otedola Biography: Oil Fortune, First Bank & Net Worth
Olufemi Peter Otedola is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist who built his fortune first in diesel and fuel distribution through Zenon Petroleum and Gas, later becoming chairman of Forte Oil Plc, and who now chairs Geregu Power Plc and, more recently, First HoldCo Plc, the parent company of First Bank of Nigeria, one of the […]
Abdulsamad Rabiu Biography: BUA Group, Cement & Net Worth
Abdul Samad Isyaku Rabiu is a Nigerian businessman and industrialist who founded and chairs BUA Group, a diversified conglomerate spanning cement manufacturing, sugar refining, real estate, and, more recently, oil and gas. Born in Kano into one of northern Nigeria’s most prominent industrial families, he built BUA into the second-largest cement producer in Nigeria and […]