In this whole world, 2,043 people are billionaires, and striking to note is that out of these people, only eleven are black people.
Aliko Dangote is the richest black person in the world, with a staggering $14.1 billion to his name.
He is also the richest per/son in Africa. Fellow countryman Mike Adenuga follows him wi/th a fortune of $5.3 billion.
Other people who make up the list are Mich/ael Jordan, Strive Masiyiwa, Oprah Winfrey, Isa/bel dos Santos and Mo Ibrahim.
Below is a list of the 11 bl/ack billionaires in the world:
1. Aliko Dangote
The ceme/nt tycoon is the richest per/son in Africa and the richest black person in the world with an estimated wo/rth of $14.1 billion. He is also into the su/gar and flour busine/sses. Dangote Cement is the largest ceme/nt manufacturer in Africa. He has also founded the Dangote Fou/ndation, with focus on health, education and agri/culture.
2. Mike Adenuga
With m/ajor investme/nts in oil, Mike Adenuga has an esti/mated worth of $5.3 billion, and he also has interests in telecoms, real estate and bank/ing. Globacom, which he owns, is the se/cond largest operator after MTN in Nigeria with more than 30 million sub/scribers as of now. He is usually known in Nigerian business and social ci/rcles as the "Guru." He obt/ained an MBA from Pace Univer/sity and interestingly, he used to drive a t/axi. He runs Conoil Producing which is one of the largest indigen/ous oil exploration and producing compan/ies in Nigeria today. He also ha/s lots and lots of propert/ies in Ghana and Nigeria.
3. Robert Smith
Robert Smith, sits at an esti/mated worth of $4.4 bi/llion. He is a former Goldman Sachs executive, and he started n Aust/in, Texas-based private equity and venture ca/pital firm Vista Equity Partners in 2/000. It has made a lot of admirable progress such that it n/ow has over $30 billion in assets under manag/ement, and is one of the world's most succ/essful hedge funds.
4. Oprah Winfrey
Can you imag/ine what TV would have been like without the stel/lar talk show prowess of Oprah Win/frey? She has a worth of $2.7 billion, and "The Op/rah Winfrey Show" was her gateway to loads and loads of success as a me/dia mogul and also a big media personality. She now ha/s her own cable channel, OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network). It was once a struggling entity but now it is cash flow positive and is enjoying soaring ratings on the back of a series of successful sitcom and dra/ma collaborations.
5. Isabel dos Santos
The daugh/ter of the former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos. She is the rich/est woman in Africa with a worth of $2.6 b/illion. She was once at the helm of Sonangol, the Angolan state-owned com/pany but the new government of Joao L/ourenco removed her from the post and is now que/stioning her tenure, with allegat/ions of financial impropriety, allegations which she denies.
At 45, she is the young/est black billionaire in the world.
6. Patrice Mo/tsepe
Patrice Motsepe has massiv/e investments in mining. He is the CEO of Afr/ican Rainbow Mi/nerals, a listed mining company that owns fe/rrous and base metals, platinum and coal operations in South Africa. His/ worth is estimated around $2.5 billion. He al/so owns the South Afric/an football club Mamelodi Sundowns.
7. Folorunsho Ala/kija
At $1.7 billion, she is the vice cha/ir of Nigerian oil company Famfa Oil. She is Nige/ria's richest woman. Famfa Oil owns a stake in A/gbami oil field, a prol/ific offshore asset. She was once a secretary at a merchant bank in Ni/geria, went into fashion designing in En/gland and foun/ded a Nigerian fashion label that catered to upscale cliente/le, including Maryam Babangida, wife to Nigeria’s former military presi/dent Ibrahim Babangida.
8. Michael Jordan
Litera/lly, the face of Bask/etball. And, with all those Jordan sneakers, his estimated wor/th is $1.65 billion. He is the majority shareholder of Cha/rlotte Bobcats and enjoys lucrative deals with the likes of Gato/rade, Hanes and Upper Deck. The brand Jordan is his biggest flow of giga/ntic revenues, and a $1 billion (sales) sportswear partnership with Nike.
9. Strive Masiyiwa
Strive Masiyiwa is Zimb/abwe's first billionaire, at $1.39 billion. Masi/yiwa is the founder of Econet Group, a Zimbabwe-listed mobile ph/one company that also has inves/tments in financial services, insurance, e-comm/erce, renewable energy, education, Coca-Cola bott/ling, hospitality and payment gateway solut/ions. Econet has the largest mobile subscriber base in Zim/babwe.
10. Michael Lee-Chin
At $1.19 bi/llion, Lee-Chin owns a 65% stake in National Com/mercial Bank Jamaica. He is a Cana/dian of Jamai/can origin.
11. Mohamed Ibrahim
Mo Ibrahim has a value of around $1.18 billion. His initial fortu/ne came as the founder of Celtel, an African mob/ile phone company, which he sold to MTC of K/uwait for $3.4 billion in 2005. He made himself $1.4 bi/llion. His major focus now is improving the lives of Africans thr/ough the Mo Ibrahim Foundation./
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