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A single Johannesburg pharmacy became a $1.9 billion retailer and South Africa’s newest billion-dollar family fortune. Now, at 75, Ivan Saltzman is handing it over — and the handover is the real test.
Francophone Africa’s richest man is staking nearly his entire ~$900 million fortune on an airline and two airports the state could not build.
Cameroon’s richest woman built her country’s cocoa trade around a single partner. When Cargill walked away, Kate Fotso faced the worst season in three decades — and began to reinvent herself.
He turned a few pounds — from a sold suit and a parcel of salvaged tablets — into one of Nigeria’s largest private industrial groups.
This week, Nassef Sawiris moved to take his flagship, OCI Global, private — a fitting bookend to one chapter and the opening of another.
He is worth roughly $9 billion on Bloomberg and absent from Forbes entirely. Inside the private empire of Mohammed Al-Amoudi — and why a collapsed Moroccan refinery just pulled him back into view.
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.
BUA’s cement-and-food champion nearly doubled his fortune in 2026 to become Africa’s second-richest — and just handed his son the next chapter. A full read of the holdings, the surge, and the succession.
Morocco’s billionaire prime minister is fighting bills to cap fuel prices in a market his own company dominates — reviving the oldest question about him.
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.
Nigeria’s most private billionaire built a fortune of roughly $6.5 billion on telecoms and oil — and tells almost no one how. A full read of an empire that hides in plain sight.
A decade in the making and only now running at full capacity, the world’s most ambitious refinery had never carried a market price. In ten days this month, it finally did — and the demand suggests the number is a floor.
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 gold correction stripped $700 million from South Africa’s richest Black industrialist in three months. The episode is a window into a fortune built on mining beta — and the quieter machine built to offset it.
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 founder of Nigeria’s most profitable bank has left its chairmanship — and is pouring his conviction into the Lagos skyline. A full read of where the fortune sits, and where it’s moving.