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10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by ComrEmmanuel(m): 12:14am On Jun 30, 2014 |
Forbes released its 2014 billionaires list this week, and a record 1,645 people made the list including 29 Africans worth $1 billion or more — nine more than last year. Here are the richest known people — and in some cases, families — in Africa: 10 Africans you didn’t know were billionaires. 1. Aliko Dangote Worth $25 billion, Aliko Dangote of Nigeria, has been Africa’s richest man for four years now. He made his fortune producing cement, milling flour and refining sugar and food beverages and is $9 billion richer than last year, according to Forbes. 2. Johann Rupert & Family Forbes ranks the luxury good tycoon from South Africa as its number two richest man on the continent, worth $7.6 billion. He owns the Swiss-based luxury goods outfit Compagnie Financiere Richemont, which you might not have heard of, but its top end brands Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Montblanc among others, are household luxury names. 3. Nicky Oppenheimer & Family The descendants of South Africa’s original diamond barrens, the Oppenheimers, are worth $6.7 billion. A number that was buoyed when they sold their 40% stake in the family diamond business, De Beers, in July 2012, in a $5.1 billion all-cash deal to Anglo American. Although no longer majority shareholders in the diamond business, the Oppenheimer family still makes a profit through investments with private equity firm Tana Africa Capital. 4. Nassef Sawiris Tied with the Oppenheimer family when it comes to net worth, with $6.7 billion to play with, is Nassef Sawiris. He is the CEO of Egypt’s most valuable publicly-traded company, Orascom Construction Industries, according to Forbes. 5. Mike Adenuga The founder of Nigeria’s second largest mobile phone network, Globacom, is notoriously reclusive, Forbes reports , hardly ever granting press interviews and always traveling with plenty of bodyguards. He is worth $4.6 billion with a portion of his wealth also derived from oil profits – he has the rights to some of Nigeria’s lucrative oil fields that his other company, Conoil Producing, mines. 6. Isabel Dos Santos Worth $3.7 billion, Isabel dos Santos of Angola is Africa’s richest woman and one of only two female billionaires on the continent — and the only woman to make Africa’s Top 10 wealthiest. The oldest daughter of Angola’s president Eduardo dos Santos, she owns large stakes in a number of blue-chip companies in Angola and Portugal including Angolan cell phone company Unitel. It is purported, however, that many of Isabel’s assets are actually held by her in trust for her father. 7. Issad Rebrab Algeria’s richest man, Issad Rebrab, is worth $3.2 billion thanks in a large part to his stake in his family’s business conglomerate Cevital, which has interests in auto distribution, mining, agriculture and sugar refining among others and is Algeria’s largest family-owned business group, employing some 12,000 people including all five of Rebrab’s children. 8. Christoffel Wiese Also clocking in at $3.2 billion, the South African retail mogul owns a chain of low-price supermarkets, Shoprite, located across multiple African countries. Christoffel Wiese also has assets in discount fashion brands, a five star hotel and a private equity firm, according to Forbes. 9. Nathan Kirsh Worth $3.1 billion, Nathan Kirsh is the only Swazi national on Forbes’ Top 10 list. He is the founder of Jetro Holdings, a cash-and-carry wholesaler for grocery stores, but made his first millions after founding a corn-milling business in Swaziland in 1958. 10. Mohamed Mansour Mohamed Mansour of Egypt owns of the world’s largest GM dealership along with his two brothers, Yasseen and Youssef (also on the billionaires list, but slightly lower down), and is worth $3.1 billion. |
Re: 10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by succyreal(m): 5:40am On Jun 30, 2014 |
list incomplete, you omitted my name |
Re: 10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by ComrEmmanuel(m): 9:52am On Jun 30, 2014 |
succyreal: list incomplete, you omitted my nameplease, don't be annoyed. Just send your bio data to me and I'll do the inclussion. |
Re: 10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by Jbenue: 10:15am On Jun 30, 2014 |
too many white people on this list |
Re: 10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by Gclan(m): 10:26am On Jun 30, 2014 |
Where is the Abacha family of Nigeria |
Re: 10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by 5iveC(m): 11:47am On Jun 30, 2014 |
Where is mrs. alakija?? Abi she don broke ni? |
Re: 10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by ComrEmmanuel(m): 1:15pm On Jun 30, 2014 |
5iveC: Where is mrs. alakija?? Abi she don broke ni?she no qualify bro. No be say she broke ooooo but, you know naaa? the baba wey dey do charm for am dey sick. |
Re: 10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by ComrEmmanuel(m): 1:20pm On Jun 30, 2014 |
Jbenue: too many white people on this listThere's no white person on this list bro. all of them are Africans. |
Re: 10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by ComrEmmanuel(m): 1:22pm On Jun 30, 2014 |
Gclan: Where is the Abacha family of Nigeriaoooops!! they could'nt make it. |
Re: 10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by 5iveC(m): 1:34pm On Jun 30, 2014 |
ComrEmmanuel: she no qualify bro. No be say she broke ooooo but, you know naaa? the baba wey dey do charm for am dey sick.lol 1 Like |
Re: 10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by Jbenue: 1:38pm On Jun 30, 2014 |
ComrEmmanuel: There's no white person on this list bro. all of them are Africans. Johann Rupert & FamilyNicky Oppenheimer & Family . Christoffel Wiese |
Re: 10 Richest People In Africa 2014 by Big4wig(m): 2:04pm On Jun 30, 2014 |
Kkay |
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