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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.
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.
This week, Nassef Sawiris moved to take his flagship, OCI Global, private — a fitting bookend to one chapter and the opening of another.
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.
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 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.
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.
Anatomy of a $6.8 billion year — and the refinery, cement and listings that could carry Africa’s richest man past $40 billion.
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.
Inside the Dangote Refinery listing and what a public valuation does to Africa’s largest private fortune.
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.
The May 4 NCBA disclosure has surfaced the Kenyatta family's institutional cap table for the first time. A full Wealth Intelligence map across banking, dairy, hospitality, media, land, and Northlands City.
Mike Adenuga turned 73. He has positioned Bella Disu as his successor — but the rest of his empire remains the most opaque continuity plan among Africa's top fortunes. We map the holdings and what the market still does not know.
Rabiu posted the best quarter in Nigerian industrial history — BUA Cement profit up 381 percent, BUA Foods proposing a record N504 billion dividend, and over $400 million flowing to him personally in a single season — and still fell to fourth on the continent.
Macron tapped him for France's Africa coalition, his foundation just deployed $16 million, and Transcorp posted record revenue of $399 million — inside the empire and influence of Tony Elumelu.
Gold past $5,400, platinum surging, ARM's profit swinging from a R409 million loss to R1.9 billion — inside the war windfall quietly compounding Patrice Motsepe's fortune.