Aliko Dangote, billionaire
businessman and Mike Adenuga, oil and telecoms mogul, have topped Forbes’s list
of world’s black billionaires for the year 2019.
In the American business
magazine’s 13 richest black people on earth list, which has four Nigerians on
it, the president of Dangote Group clinched the first position with a fortune
estimated at $10.9 billion.
According to Forbes, Dangote’s
fortune was made from sugar, cement and flour production. He is also on the
verge to launch a private oil refinery in Nigeria which will have a refining
capacity of 6500,000 barrels a day and is expected to reduce the country’s
dependence on oil imports.
In second place was Adenuga,
founder of Globacom, a Nigerian mobile telephone outfit, with an estimated
fortune of $9.1 billion.
Aside from being the founder and
sole owner of Globacom, which has more than 40 million subscribers in Nigeria
and neighboring African countries, Adenuga also built his fortune in oil. He
owns Conoil, one of Nigeria’s first indigenous oil exploration companies in the
early 90s.
Third on the list for Nigerians
is Abdulsamad Rabiu, founder of BUA Group, a Nigerian conglomerate with
interests in sugar refining, cement production, real estate, steel, port
concessions, manufacturing, oil gas and shipping. He is worth an estimated $1.6
billion.
Folorunsho Alakija, Nigeria’s
first female billionaire and the founder of Famfa Oil, also made the list with
an estimated fortune of $1.1 billion.
Below are names of the 13 richest
black people on earth:
- Aliko Dangote – Nigerian ($10.9 billion)
- Mike Adenuga – Nigerian ($9.1 billion)
- Robert Smith – American ($5 billion)
- David Steward – American ($3 billion)
- Oprah Winfrey – American ($2.5 billion)
- Strive Masiyiwa – Zimbabwean ($2.4 billion)
- Isabel Dos Santos – Angolan ($2.3 billion)
- Patrice Motsepe – South African ($2.3 billion)
- Michael Jordan – American ($1.9 billion)
- Michael Lee-Chin – Canadian ($1.9 billion)
- Abdulsamad Rabiu – Nigerian ($1.6 billion)
- Folorunsho Alakija – Nigerian ($1.1 billion)
- Mohammed Ibrahim – Sudanese-British ($1.1 billion)
The list was extracted from
Forbes’ list of the World’s Billionaires in 2019, which has 2,153 people.
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