Dangote Tops Forbes Africa Billionaires list
Nigeria’s billionaire businessman and President/CEO of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, at 62 with a net worth of $10.1 billion, has topped Forbes Africa’s Billionaires list for 2020 for the ninth time in a row with Mike Adenuga at the third spot.
The list according to Forbes captures only eight countries who have billionaires; Egypt and South Africa are tied with five billionaires each, followed by Nigeria with four and Morocco with two.
See the full list of Africa’s billionaires below:
- Aliko Dangote $10.1 billion
- Nassef Sawiris $8 billion
- Mike Adenuga $7.7 billion
- Nicky Oppenheimer $7.7 billion
- Johann Rupert $6.5 billion
- Issad Rebrab $4.4 billion
- Mohamed Mansour $3.3 billion
- Abdulsamad Rabiu $3.1 billion
- Naguib Sawiris $3 billion
- Patrice Motsepe $2.6 billion
- Koos Bekker – $2.5 billion
- Yasseen Mansour – $2.3 billion
- Isabel dos Santos – $2.2 billion
- Youssef Mansour – $1.9 billion
- Aziz Akhannouch – $1.7 billion
- Mohammed Dewji – $1.6 billion
- Othman Benjelloun – $1.4 billion
- Michiel Le Roux – $1.3 billion
- Strive Masiyiwa – $1.1 billion
- Folorunsho Alakija – $1 billion
