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Hakeem Olajuwon built a $300 million real estate empire across Houston and beyond, financing every deal with cash and zero debt, guided entirely by his Islamic faith.
From a Manchester mansion with its own football pitch to a $6 million Miami tower beside the Beckhams, Paul Pogba's property run keeps moving on.
Africa Finance Corporation has signed a $600 million loan with Dangote Group to triple fertiliser production capacity in Nigeria and build a new plant in Ethiopia.
Shoprite has exceeded its full-year store opening target with a month to go, boosting the value of Christo Wiese's $1.2 billion stake in the retailer.
Capitec co-founder Gerrie Fourie says South Africa's dysfunction creates opportunities unavailable elsewhere and urged South Africans considering emigration to think carefully before leaving.
The NBA champion New York Knicks carry a $211.7 million payroll, second highest in the league, led by Karl-Anthony Towns at $53.1 million this season.
A decade in the making and only now running at full capacity, the world’s most ambitious refinery had never carried a market price. In ten days this month, it finally did — and the demand suggests the number is a floor.
The eldest Sawiris turned a telecom windfall into a gold-and-property empire built for turbulent times — and his net worth now depends on which index you read. Inside the holdings, the strategy, and the range.
A gold correction stripped $700 million from South Africa’s richest Black industrialist in three months. The episode is a window into a fortune built on mining beta — and the quieter machine built to offset it.
Rob Hersov tells the mines minister to fix the sector or forfeit the country's future. Robert Gumede nears a deal to resolve the Tongaat Hulett crisis.
Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola, who dropped out of high school at 17 without completing his A-Levels, has completed an executive programme at London Business School at 63.
Kudirat Adegunwa-Balogun, CFO of Rite Foods and daughter of Nigerian beverage billionaire Adebola Adegunwa, has been named APC deputy governorship candidate for Ogun State's 2027 election.
James Mwangi's 127.8 million Equity Group shares are now worth $75 million, up $8 million since Billionaires.Africa ranked him fourth on the NSE rich list in February.
Hassanein Hiridjee's Axian Telecom has lined up a fresh €170 million EBRD loan to expand mobile and fibre infrastructure across Senegal and Kenya.
Saudi billionaire Abdulrahman Sharbatly's Golden Pyramids Plaza posted an 89% year-on-year profit collapse in Q1 2026 to $4.9 million despite revenues holding near $25.4 million.
Abdulaziz Yari became Geregu Power chairman after spending N1.08 trillion ($793 million) on the acquisition as a civil society group links him to illegal gold mining.