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Oprah Winfrey has signed a multiyear deal with Amazon's Wondery, handing the company her podcast, Book Club, Favorite Things franchise and the full archive of her 25-season talk show.
Elon Musk took the witness stand April 28 in his $134 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, arguing the company he helped found betrayed its original mission to benefit humanity.
A Kenyan court has frozen 3 land parcels belonging to David Langat and his spouse after a creditor sued to recover Sh87 million in vehicle loans that have gone unpaid since 2016.
Dangote crosses $30 billion on Forbes for the first time, Hiridjee's Axian buys five Letshego banking units across West and East Africa, Motsepe's ARM signs a nickel deal with Boliden to restart Nkomati, and Dangote eyes Ethiopia's new stock exchange for the refinery IPO.
Patrice Motsepe's ARM has signed a nickel off-take deal with Sweden's Boliden to restart the mothballed Nkomati mine.
Madagascar billionaire Hassanein Hiridjee's Axian Group is buying five Letshego banking subsidiaries in Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda, deepening its pan-African banking footprint.
Aliko Dangote is considering listing his refinery on the Ethiopian Securities Exchange as part of a pan-African IPO push that could reshape capital markets across the continent.
Aliko Dangote's refinery supplies more than 95% of Nigeria's aviation fuel and has exported 1.1 billion liters to Europe, even as airlines say fuel middlemen are pushing prices up by 300%.
Atlanta engineer Barry Givens built and exited a robot bartender startup, then co-founded Collab Capital, a $125 million fund backing Black American entrepreneurs.
Aliko Dangote has pledged 95,000 skilled jobs as he scales his Lagos refinery to 1.4 million barrels a day, on track to overtake India's Jamnagar.
Forbes has valued Aliko Dangote at $30.3 billion for the first time, as his producing refinery closes a persistent gap between the world's two top wealth trackers.
Ghana's Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has honored McDan Group's Daniel McKorley with a commemorative gold medal on his 27th enstoolment anniversary.
Arthur Eze built Africa's biggest private oil portfolio by cultivating presidents and generals, almost never drilling a well, and flipping blocks to oil majors for enormous profit.
Nigerian billionaire Abdul Samad Rabiu spoke at the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, urging young African leaders to think beyond limitations and build intentionally.
Aliko Dangote pledged N550 million to build a student hostel at FUTO and donated N25 million to students while commissioning a clean energy lab in Owerri, Imo State.
Oprah Winfrey made a surprise visit to Morehouse College on Friday for an intimate send-off with graduating seniors from her scholars program, which she has funded since 1989.