Africa's Top Ten Billionaires (USD)

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Posted by Felix Okoli on November 21, 2011 at 07:55:32:

Well, according to Forbes rich list, there are over 10 billionaires in Africa and our very own Aliko Dangote maintains his number one position as Africa's richest. We are not just talking in terms of naira but in terms of the USD(Over 150 naira)

Well, here is the list of the top ten billionaires in Africa:

1 Aliko Dangote
Country: Nigeria
Worth: $10.1billion
Age: 54
Business: Food and cement

2 Nicky Oppenheimer
Country: South Africa
Worth: $6.5billion
Age: 66
Business: Diamonds

3. Nassef Sawiris
Country: Egypt
Worth: $4.75billion
Age: 50
Business: Constuction

4. Johann Rupert & family
Country: South Africa
Worth: $4.7billion
Age: 61
Business: Luxury goods

5. Mike Adenuga
Country: Nigeria
Worth: $4.3billion
Age: 58
Business: Oil

6. Miloud Chaabi
Country: Morocco
Worth: $3billion
Age: 82
Business: Housing and hotels

7. Naguib Sawiris
Country: Egypt
Worth: $2.9billion
Age: 57
Business: Telecoms

8. Christoffel Wiese
Country: South Africa
Worth: $2.7billion
Age: 70
Business: Retail

9. Onsi Sawiris
Country: Egypt
Worth: $2.6billion
Age: 81
Business: Construction, telecoms

10. Patrice Motsepe
Country: South Africa
Worth: $2.5billion
Age: 49
Business: Mining

Summary
From the list we can see that there are more billionaires from South Africa based on top ten but in overall, there are more billionaires in Egypt than other parts of countries. In Nigeria, we see a growing list of billionaires showing that more money is moving into private hands rather than public officials. Other countries worth of note are South Africa.
There are no top female billionaires yet and based on the top ten list by Forbes, South Africa has 4, Egypt has 3, Nigeria has 2 and Morocco has 1.

Comments:

Re: Africa's Top Ten Billionaires (USD) Aliko Dangote is the wealthest man in Africa.He is from Nigeria my beloved country.I'm happy for him.

Posted by Solomon Edet on December 13, 2011 at 03:26:42:
I'm very happy to have Aliko Dangote as the Africa's top bilionaire.He is from Nigeria,my beloved country.I wish AlikoDangote more prosperous years ahead.God will add more grease in your elbows.Cheers!!!!!!
Re: Africa's Top Ten Billionaires (USD)

Posted by Bashir Soli on December 22, 2011 at 07:10:41:
Aliko Dangote is Blessed with allot of wealth and these wealth you are hearing about is the will of God cos God is the giver and also the taker, He gives wealth to those He wants and takes it away from those he wants that is why you will see allot of multi millionairs in the past years are now poor cos God has taken the wealth from them and gave it to other people and no body will ask God why He does that my only prayer here is to seek for God guidace and protection against all evil and to pray for the protection of the wealth God Has bestowed on those rich people and to guide them in using the wealth in a more prosperous way and also may All Mighty God provide and sustain us in all our live ameen.
Re: Africa's Top Ten Billionaires (USD)

Posted by M. S. Abdullahi on February 15, 2012 at 07:41:41:
Allah, the provider gives wealth to those He so wishes, has certainly gave them riches. But the case is what have they been doing with this enormous fortune residing amidst hundred million people living under less than N160 per day? The case of the richest of all of them.