Deep-Dive Report: Who Owns the House
Two Kenyan businessmen spent six years and a maze of holding companies fighting to control SportPesa. This week, filings showed an untraceable firm in the United Arab Emirates now holds 54% of the operator.
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Deep-Dive Report: BUA Foods — Scale Matters
A record $363 million dividend, a 95% jump in profit, and a bet to become Nigeria's largest food manufacturer by next year. Inside Abdul Samad Rabiu's plan to win the staple-food market on sheer volume.
Deep-Dive Report: Abderrahmane Benhamadi — Made in Algeria
A European heatwave, an AfCFTA loophole and a $1 billion family conglomerate: how Abderrahmane Benhamadi's Condor is trying to turn Algeria into an exporter of something other than oil and gas.
Deep-Dive Report: Taking It Private
Nassef Sawiris has crossed 55% of OCI Global and won his board's backing for a €4.10 all-cash offer. Inside the take-private — and the Orascom question riding alongside it.
Deep-Dive Report: Samuel Dossou-Aworet — The Corridor Builder
He ran Gabon’s oil for 13 years, built a near-billion-dollar private energy empire from Geneva and has spent a decade trying to build Benin a trade corridor to the Sahel. This week, the first trains of that dream finally moved.
Deep-Dive Report: Christo Wiese — The Long Way Back
He was nearly Africa’s richest man — then Steinhoff’s accounting fraud erased billions in days. The methodical rebuild of a retail legend through Shoprite, Brait and Invicta, and an honest read of the fortune.
Deep-Dive Report: Baba Ahmadou Danpullo — The All-In Bet
Francophone Africa’s richest man is staking nearly his entire ~$900 million fortune on an airline and two airports the state could not build.
Deep-Dive Report: Cletus Ibeto — Built from the Wreckage
He turned a few pounds — from a sold suit and a parcel of salvaged tablets — into one of Nigeria’s largest private industrial groups.
Deep-Dive Report: Ahmed El Sewedy — Wiring a Region
The Elsewedy Electric chief is turning Egypt’s cable champion into a pan-regional infrastructure and manufacturing force — from power lines to electric cars. Inside the empire, the expansion, and an honest read of the number.
Deep-Dive Report: Mohammed Dewji — The Turnaround Machine
East Africa’s only billionaire built a roughly $2.1 billion fortune buying what others had given up on — and fixing it. Inside the METL playbook, the man, and the ordeal that tested both.
Deep-Dive Report: Naguib Sawiris – The Safe-Haven Pivot
The eldest Sawiris turned a telecom windfall into a gold-and-property empire built for turbulent times — and his net worth now depends on which index you read. Inside the holdings, the strategy, and the range.
Deep-Dive Report: Tony Elumelu — The Crown Jewel
A banker turned energy consolidator is building a self-reinforcing African conglomerate — and his move on Seplat is the most consequential yet. Inside the architecture, the catalyst, and why we decline to put a net-worth figure on him.
Deep-Dive Report: Johann Rupert — Beyond Cartier
The three-vehicle architecture behind South Africa’s largest fortune — and why the Richemont headline understates it.
Deep-Dive Report: Patrice Motsepe’s Second Act
Fresh speculation surrounds Patrice Motsepe's leadership of the Confederation of African Football, with growing talk that the South African billionaire may leave the CAF presidency before his term ends in 2029.
Deep-Dive Report: The Capital Markets Moment — How Nigeria’s FTSE Upgrade, the Dangote IPO, and Seplat’s N10,000 Are Reshaping African Equity Markets
The FTSE upgrade, the Dangote IPO, Seplat's N10,000 milestone, and a $4.61 trillion banking recapitalization all landed in the same month — we map how the infrastructure being built now will outlast any single listing.
Deep-Dive Report: Africa's Refining Revolution — How the Hormuz Crisis Is Rewriting the Map
Africa spends $60 billion a year importing fuel it could refine at home — the Hormuz crisis just proved why that model is broken, and Dangote's 456,000-tonne export run shows the fix is already under way.