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Aliko Dangote
Born
US$28.5bn. Dangote began by trading rice, sugar and cement before moving into manufacturing. Cement and oil refining make his Nigerian business story one of building industrial capacity as well as distributing goods.
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Abdul Samad Rabiu
Born
US$11.2bn. Rabiu established BUA in 1988 as a trading business. Its development into food production and cement manufacturing connects this fortune to products used by households and the construction industry.
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Nassef Sawiris
Born
US$9.6bn. Nassef Sawiris led Orascom Construction Industries and later OCI, with activities spanning construction and industrial chemicals. His business interests differ from the telecom and resort-development careers of his brothers Naguib and Samih.
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Mike Adenuga
Born
US$6.5bn. Adenuga's business interests include telecommunications through Globacom and energy through Conoil. Those two capital-intensive sectors distinguish his Nigerian fortune from the food and cement businesses near the top of this list.
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Naguib Sawiris
Born
US$5.6bn. Naguib Sawiris built Orascom Telecom before expanding his investment interests. La Mancha's focus on precious and energy-transition metals shows how the business behind a fortune can move beyond its original industry.
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Patrice Motsepe
Born
US$4.3bn. Motsepe founded contract miner Future Mining in 1994 and ARMgold in 1997. Subsequent mergers helped create African Rainbow Minerals, linking his South African fortune to the development and ownership of mining businesses.
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Mohamed Mansour (businessman)
US$4bn. Mohamed Mansour chairs the Mansour Group, whose businesses include vehicles, industrial equipment and consumer products. His interests also extend to Man Capital, an investment firm, giving this separately estimated fortune several commercial foundations.
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Michiel le Roux
Born
US$3.8bn. Le Roux was Capitec's founding chief executive and later its chairman. His wealth is closely associated with an ownership stake in the South African bank, rather than the value of all the deposits it holds for customers.
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Koos Bekker
Born
US$3.6bn. Bekker helped build the M-Net pay-television business and later led Naspers. Its early investment in Tencent illustrates how a South African media career became tied to the growth of international internet businesses.
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Mohammed Dewji
Born
US$2.1bn. Dewji joined the trading business established by his father and helped expand MeTL across manufacturing, agriculture and other sectors. The Tanzanian group offers a different route from owning a single mine, bank or telecom operator.
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Strive Masiyiwa
Born
US$2.1bn. Masiyiwa founded Econet, which began mobile operations in Botswana and Zimbabwe in 1998. His wider interests include fibre networks, data centres and digital services, extending the business beyond mobile subscriptions.
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Christo Wiese
Born
US$1.9bn. Wiese's fortune has long been associated with retail, including Shoprite and Pepkor. The later Steinhoff collapse sharply reduced his wealth, a reminder that a billionaire ranking records a changing ownership position, not a permanent achievement.
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Youssef Mansour
Born
US$1.8bn. Youssef Mansour founded industrial-equipment distributor Mantrac and chaired it from 1977 to 1992. Although the Mansour businesses have family roots, this entry uses the source's separately attributed estimate for him.
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Yasseen Mansour
US$1.4bn. Yasseen Mansour helped develop Palm Hills from a single-project company into an Egyptian property developer. That focus distinguishes his career from the vehicle and industrial-equipment businesses associated with other Mansour family members.
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Samih Sawiris
Born
US$1.4bn. Samih Sawiris founded Orascom Development and began building El Gouna on Egypt's Red Sea coast in 1989. Resort towns and hospitality are central to his story, unlike his brothers' telecom and industrial businesses.
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Femi Otedola
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US$1.3bn. Otedola built businesses in fuel distribution before investing in electricity generation through Geregu Power. He also became chairman of First HoldCo, showing a career that has crossed energy and financial services.
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