Wealth Intelligence: The Molecule and the Map
Merck handed Aspen the right to make a once-monthly HIV pill across 129 countries. It is the second pharma prize Africa's largest drugmaker has landed this month.
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Wealth Intelligence: The Discipline of No
Johann Rupert spent months examining a "potentially very significant" investment — and walked away. Reinet is now buying back up to €500 million of its own shares instead, sitting on the largest cash pile in its history.
Wealth Intelligence: Femi Otedola — The Banker's Bet
Femi Otedola is a Forbes-listed billionaire and the author of one of the boldest bets in Nigerian banking. Yesterday his First HoldCo stake hit a record $530 million. Inside the holdings, the cash flows and the pivot behind the number.
Wealth Intelligence: The Refinery Network
How Aliko Dangote's $17 billion Lamu bet turns a single plant into a continental system — and what it signals about the IPO to come.
Wealth Intelligence: Michiel Le Roux — Banking the Overlooked
He built Capitec for the customers South Africa’s banks ignored — and rode it to a $3.8 billion fortune as the lender became Africa’s most valuable bank.
Wealth Intelligence: Johann Rupert — The Luxury Throne
Africa’s second-richest man controls Cartier, a healthcare empire and a web of listed holdings — quietly, from Stellenbosch. As Remgro seizes full control of Mediclinic, a full read of the Rupert fortune.
Wealth Intelligence: Ivan Saltzman — The Discount Dynasty
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.
Wealth Intelligence: Nassef Sawiris — The Third Empire
This week, Nassef Sawiris moved to take his flagship, OCI Global, private — a fitting bookend to one chapter and the opening of another.
Wealth Intelligence: Abdul Samad Rabiu — The Fastest Climb
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.
Wealth Intelligence: Mike Adenuga — The Quiet Colossus
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.
Wealth Intelligence: Patrice Motsepe – The $700 Million Reversal
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.
Wealth Intelligence: Jim Ovia — The $643 Million Pivot
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.
Wealth Intelligence: Aliko Dangote — The $40 Billion Climb
Anatomy of a $6.8 billion year — and the refinery, cement and listings that could carry Africa’s richest man past $40 billion.
Wealth Intelligence: Othman Benjelloun — The Succession Question
At 93, Othman Benjelloun still holds both the chairman and chief-executive titles at Bank of Africa, still chairs the strategy committee, and by all accounts intends to keep going.
Wealth Intelligence: The $50 Billion Question at the Dangote Refinery
Inside the Dangote Refinery listing and what a public valuation does to Africa’s largest private fortune.
Wealth Intelligence: The Motsepe Architecture — How a Mining Fortune Became a Diversified Pan-African Capital Platform
A wealth-architecture profile of Patrice Motsepe, whose $4.3 billion fortune now spans diversified mining, gold, digital banking, renewable energy, and a presence on the share register of the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.