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Byron Allen built a $1 billion media empire the old-fashioned way, without permission
Byron Allen turned a teenager's punchlines on Johnny Carson into a $1 billion empire spanning broadcast TV, digital media and some of corporate America's most contentious courtrooms.
Warren Anderson lost his media job and built a $500 million McDonald's distribution empire from scratch
Warren Anderson lost his media job at 36, bought a McDonald's distribution company and built it into a $500 million Black-owned American business empire.
Junior Bridgeman turned a $350,000 NBA salary into a $600 million empire built on fast food and Coca-Cola
Junior Bridgeman earned a modest NBA salary and retired worth $600 million, building one of the most unlikely business empires in American sports history.
Byron Allen owns a $100 million Malibu cliff and a Beverly Hills mega-compound he built from scratch
Byron Allen's real estate portfolio stretches from a $100 million Malibu clifftop estate to beachfront Maui and a Beverly Hills mega-compound built from neighboring lots.
Von Miller built a $45 million fortune on quarterback sacks and chicken farming
Von Miller terrorized quarterbacks for 15 seasons, then built a second life as an organic chicken farmer with a reported $45 million fortune.
Dwayne Johnson turned $7 in his pocket into an $800 million empire
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African Wealth Briefing — Thurs., June 11, 2026
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Oxfam details the 'danger' of Elon Musk becoming world's first trillionaire
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Nigerian insurance tycoon Wole Oshin's stake in Custodian Investment is nearing $100 million
Wole Oshin's 27.39% stake in Custodian Investment Plc is now worth $96.2 million, nearing the $100 million mark as Nigeria's insurance sector undergoes historic reform.
Oil tycoon Samuel Dossou-Aworet's Seplat stake has surged to $670 million and keeps climbing
Samuel Dossou-Aworet's 13.5% stake in Seplat Energy through Petrolin Group is now worth $670 million, up $300 million since the start of 2026.
Billionaire Johann Rupert's Remgro just won approval to take full control of 50 South African hospitals
South Africa's Competition Tribunal has approved Remgro's $950 million acquisition of Mediclinic Southern Africa, giving Johann Rupert's company full control of 50 private hospitals.
Ghanaian waste management tycoon Joseph Siaw Agyepong's Jospong now operates in 29 African countries
Joseph Siaw Agyepong's Jospong Group has expanded its waste management operations into 29 African countries, employing 10,000 people directly and creating 250,000 indirect jobs.
This Nigerian family built an £8 million business importing Lagos-brewed Guinness into Britain
A Nigerian family in Croydon has quietly held Britain's exclusive Nigerian Guinness import licence since 1998 and built a business worth up to £8 million.
Ghanaian alcohol tycoon Kwabena Adjei's Kasapreko raised $120 million in its IPO and lists on the GSE on Monday
Kasapreko PLC will list on the Ghana Stock Exchange on June 17 under ticker KPLC after its IPO raised double its GH¢700 million ($60.1 million) target.
Dis-Chem's new CEO is spending hundreds of millions to reinvent South Africa's biggest pharmacy chain
Dis-Chem CEO Rui Morais is spending hundreds of millions on internal disruption to transform South Africa's second-largest pharmacy chain into an integrated healthcare provider.