Billionaire Aliko Dangote says refinery could pursue U.S. secondary listing
Billionaire Aliko Dangote says his refinery could pursue a U.S. secondary listing in about three to four years after establishing a public trading record in Nigeria.
African Billionaires
Billionaire Patrice Motsepe’s phosphate mine hits trouble after $160 million investment
Billionaire Patrice Motsepe’s phosphate mine is under pressure as Kropz restructures its Elandsfontein operation after $160 million of investment.
Benin-born oil veteran Samuel Dossou-Aworet holds $1.4 billion of Nigerian oil shares
Samuel Dossou-Aworet's stakes in Seplat and Aradel are worth $1.43 billion, built by a Benin-born engineer who once ran Gabon's oil sector.
Why Africans with $1 billion in shares are missing from the Bloomberg and Forbes rich lists
Forbes and Bloomberg subtract debt, discount illiquid stakes and refuse to count assets they cannot verify. A billion-dollar holding is not enough.
The Top 10 Richest People In Africa | September 2026
Forbes' daily ranking on Sept. 1 puts Aliko Dangote at $31.4 billion and Nathan Kirsh second at $19.2 billion, ahead of Johann Rupert.
Morocco has a new billionaire, construction tycoon M'hammed Kabbaj, worth $1.7 billion
Morocco has a new billionaire in SGTM chairman M'hammed Kabbaj, whose 22.2 million shares in the construction group are worth $1.72 billion.
Cameroonian billionaire Paul Fokam Kammogne's Congolese bank is $117 million in the red
Afriland First Bank RDC has negative equity of $116.9 million four years after Paul Fokam Kammogne's group was pushed out by regulators.
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote will give a third of his fortune to charity - $11.6 billion today
Aliko Dangote will leave a third of his fortune to charity. That is $11.6 billion today, before his refinery reaches the market.
Tycoon Moh Damush's Telecel Group bids for TalkTalk's UK wholesale telecom arm
Telecel Group, the pan-African operator co-founded by Moh Damush, has bid for TalkTalk's UK wholesale arm in a deal worth up to £450 million.
French prosecutors fly to Mauritius to question Madagascar tycoon Mamy Ravatomanga
France's Parquet National Financier has sent prosecutors to Mauritius to personally question Mamy Ravatomanga as his legal troubles continue to expand across Madagascar, Mauritius and France.
Jean-Louis Billon built a $1.2 billion palm oil empire, then chased Ivory Coast's presidency
He built his family's plantation roots into a $1.2 billion palm oil and rubber empire, then turned his ambition toward Ivory Coast's presidency. T
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris met Syria's president in Damascus to resolve investments he lost under the Assad regime
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has met Syria's new president in Damascus as he seeks to resolve outstanding financial claims in the country.
Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris makes unsolicited bid to take chemical giant OCI Global private at EUR 4.10 per share
Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris has launched an unsolicited all-cash offer of EUR 4.10 per share to take nitrogen producer OCI Global private and end a prolonged corporate impasse.
Inside Zimbabwean mogul Wicknell Chivayo's R160m Clifton home — Black Coffee's new neighbor
Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo has dropped $8.7m on a SAOTA-designed Clifton mansion, his most striking real estate move yet.
Ivorian tycoon Jean Kacou Diagou's NSIA Group secures $34.2 million from UK development finance to expand SME lending
Jean Kacou Diagou's NSIA Banque Côte d'Ivoire has signed a €30 million facility with British International Investment to expand SME lending across the country.
ExecuJet Africa is pushing into ultra-long-range jets as Africa's wealthy appetite for private aviation grows
ExecuJet Africa is moving into ultra-long-range aircraft management, evaluating the Gulfstream G550 and Dassault Falcon 7X as demand from Africa's wealthy clients accelerates.