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Kenyan businesswoman Mary Wambui has sued Google in the High Court to remove search results about her Sh2.2 billion ($16.9 million) tax evasion case, which was dropped in January 2023.
Optasia debuted on the JSE in November 2025 as Sub-Saharan Africa's first major fintech IPO. Six months later, the operating story has compounded — but the founder is gone, FirstRand owns 26%, and a related-party deal is testing the listing's governance architecture.
Presco's profit jumped 57.4% to N178 billion and Okomu Oil grew Q1 to N34 billion, lifting the combined market cap of Nigeria's protected palm oil duopoly past $2.7 billion — and one of the two has just become Nigerian-controlled after 33 years of Belgian rule.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has spent nearly $75 million assembling a waterfront compound in Miami Beach, buying a $28.5 million teardown next to the $46 million mansion he already owns on the Venetian Islands.
Yérim Sow's Bridge Bank moves into Guinea Conakry, Ralph Mupita takes home a record R99 million as MTN credits Nigeria for its strongest year in decades, and Ibrahim Mahama pays the first $2 million of his $5 million Black Stars pledge.
Residents of Jamestown, a historic community inside South Africa's wealthiest municipality, marched on May 1 against gentrification and municipal neglect as the mayor failed to show up for their petition.
Discovery founder and CEO Adrian Gore has been appointed to the new Business Leadership South Africa board as the organisation enters a fresh three-year cycle with new members.
Ibrahim Mahama's Damang Gold Mine has sold its first 110 kilograms of output to Ghana's Gold Board for the central bank's reserves, weeks after taking over the mine from Gold Fields.
Wale Babalakin's Bi-Courtney has written off a N132 billion judgment debt and returned MMA1 to the government, ending a 20-year dispute over Lagos's MMA2 private airport terminal.
Former Glencore nickel trader Jason Kluk and South African billionaire Sandile Zungu are acquiring Sumitomo's 54% stake in Madagascar's Ambatovy nickel mine, which has cost the Japanese company $2.6 billion in cumulative losses.
Access Holdings posted a record N743 billion profit in 2025, up 16% from the prior year, with FX gains and pan-African acquisitions driving a result that made it an outlier among Nigeria's biggest banks.
Yérim Sow's Bridge Bank Group Côte d'Ivoire plans to launch a subsidiary in Guinea Conakry by 2027, extending the Teyliom Group lender's West African footprint into one of Africa's richest mining economies.
Joe Lewis is targeting more than $200 million at Sotheby's London in June with masterpieces by Klimt, Modigliani and Freud, making it the most valuable single-owner sale in London's history.
Arthur Eze loses another oil block as South Sudan strips Oranto of Block B3, Koos Bekker loses $500 million as Naspers and Prosus slide 24%, Dangote Cement posts $233 million in Q1 profit, and BUA Foods grows Q1 profit to $103 million even as revenue falls 11%.
Mike Adenuga turned 73. He has positioned Bella Disu as his successor — but the rest of his empire remains the most opaque continuity plan among Africa's top fortunes. We map the holdings and what the market still does not know.
Gauteng's ultra-wealthy are not choosing between Johannesburg and Cape Town. They are keeping R20-R40 million Joburg primary homes and buying R60 million coastal retreats alongside them.
