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Paul Obambi grew up barefoot in Brazzaville's Poto-poto neighborhood, bought a removals company in 1990, sold it and built Sapro Group into Congo's most diversified private empire across 11 countries.
Sylvestre Ngouchinghe began selling frozen fish at a Yaoundé market stall in 1982 and built Congelcam into a $280 million empire that now controls up to 80 percent of Cameroon's seafood market.
Baba Danpullo started as a truck driver and small shopkeeper in Cameroon's Northwest Region and built a $940 million fortune spanning tea estates, telecoms and South African real estate.
Bento Kangamba rose from an MPLA soldier in Moxico to a $200 million Angolan empire spanning diamonds, logistics and a football club that won the Girabola and almost collapsed.
Agostinho Kapaia grew up in Huambo and built Grupo Opaia into Angola's most diversified private conglomerate, with 80,000 hectares of farmland and a $1.4 billion fertilizer plant under construction.
AfDB president Sidi Ould Tah has opened the bank's 61st annual meeting in Brazzaville by unveiling a plan to mobilize Africa's $4 trillion in pension and sovereign wealth funds to close a $400 billion annual development financing gap.
Vanity Fair’s new Dan Gertler feature revisits his Congo mining rise, sanctions history and role in the global scramble for cobalt.
Billionaire mine financier Robert Friedland has lit the first flame at Kamoa-Kakula, launching Africa’s largest copper smelter in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Sol Daurella has turned a decades-old family franchise into one of Coca-Cola’s most strategic platforms in Africa. Her family’s ECCBC network spans 13 countries, with Casablanca now serving as its operational nerve centre.
The CEO of Telcar Cocoa Ltd. is empowering farmers, promoting sustainability, and setting new standards in agribusiness.
Sothema is Morocco’s leading healthcare firm.