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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.
Francophone Africa’s richest man is staking nearly his entire ~$900 million fortune on an airline and two airports the state could not build.
He turned a few pounds — from a sold suit and a parcel of salvaged tablets — into one of Nigeria’s largest private industrial groups.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The three-vehicle architecture behind South Africa’s largest fortune — and why the Richemont headline understates it.
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.
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.
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.