The Africa Billionaire List November, 2014

* In 2014, Africa had 55 billionaires with a net worth totalling $161.7 billion, a 12.4 percent rise from $143.8 billion in 2013.

* 5 New Entrants ( Tony Elumelu, Cletus Ibeto, Benedict Peters, Samih Sawiris and Akanimu Udofia)

* Nigeria (23 Billionaires), South Africa (8 Billionaires), Egypt (8 Billionaires), Morocco (4 Billionaires), Kenya (3 Billionaires), Tanzania (2 Billionaires), Uganda (2 Billionaires), Algeria (1 Billionaire), Angola (1 Billionaire), Swaziland (1 Billionaire) Sudan (1 Billionaire) Zimbabwe( 1 Billionaire)

* 500,000 Jobs were Created by the Billionaires

* Average age of the Continents Billionaires is 63 years



1
Aliko Dangote

Net Worth: $25.7 billion
Industry: Manufacturing
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 57
Number of Jobs Created: 32,900

2
Mike Adenuga

Net Worth: $8 billion
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 61
Number of Jobs Created: 6,080


3
Johann Rupert
Net Worth: $7.8 billion
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: South Africa
Age: 64
Number of Jobs Created: 1,465


4

Folorunsho Alakija
Net Worth: $7.3 billion
Industry: Oil and Gas
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 63
Number of Jobs Created: 800

5

Nassef Sawiris

Net Worth: $6.9 BILLION
Industry: Construction
Country of Citizenship: Egypt
Age: 53
Number of Jobs Created: 29,108


6

Nicky Oppenheimer

Net Worth: $6.5 BILLION
Industry: Mining
Country of Citizenship: South Africa
Age: 69
Number of Jobs Created: 15,365


7

Allan Gray

Net Worth: $6.2 BILLION
Industry: Financial Services
Country of Citizenship: South Africa
Age: 76
Number of Jobs Created: 23,345


8
Prince Arthur Eze

Net Worth: $5.8 BILLION
Industry: Oil and Gas
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 62
Number of Jobs Created: 1,000

9

Gilbert Chagoury

Net Worth: $4.3 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 68
Number of Jobs Created: 6,550


10

Nathan Kirsh

Net Worth: $3.8 BILLION
Industry: Real Estate
Country of Citizenship: Swaziland
Age: 87
Number of Jobs Created: 870


11
Cletus M. Ibeto

Net Worth: $3.7 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 62
Number of Jobs Created: 4,500



12
Christoffel Wiese

Net Worth: $3.6 BILLION
Industry: Retail
Country of Citizenship: South Africa
Age: 73
Number of Jobs Created: 9,107

13
Isabel Dos Santos

Net Worth: $3.5 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Angola
Age: 41
Number of Jobs Created: 3,378


14
Othman Benjelloun

Net Worth: $3.1 BILLION
Industry: Financial Services
Country of Citizenship: Morocco
Age: 83
Number of Jobs Created: 21,026

15
Mohammed Mansour

Net Worth: $3 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Egypt
Age: 66
Number of Jobs Created: 24,926


16
Issad Rebrab

Net Worth: $3 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Algeria
Age: 70
Number of Jobs Created: 10,500


17
Benedict Peters

Net Worth: $2.7 BILLION
Industry: Oil and Gas
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 48
Number of Jobs Created: 11,000


18
Naguib Sawiris

Net Worth: $2.5 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Egypt
Age: 60
Number of Jobs Created: 17,850

Naguib is the eldest son of Egyptian business mogul, Onsi Sawiris, the founder of Egypt’s largest construction company, Orascom Construction and patriarch of the country’s most diversified conglomerate, Orascom Group.

19
Patrice Motsepe

Net Worth: $2.5 BILLION
Industry: Mining
Country of Citizenship: South Africa
Age: 52
Number of Jobs Created: 6,851

20
Youssef Mansour

Net Worth: $2.3 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Egypt
Age: 69
Number of Jobs Created: 18,875


21
Jim Ovia

Net Worth: $2.3 BILLION
Industry: Financial Services
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 60
Number of Jobs Created: 1,450

22
Miloud Chaabi

Net Worth: $2.3 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Morocco
Age: 85
Number of Jobs Created: 19,480



23
Yasseen Mansour

Net Worth: $2 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Egypt
Age: 53
Number of Jobs Created: 16,198


24
Mohammed Dewji

Net Worth: $2 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Tanzania
Age: 39
Number of Jobs Created: 16,800



25
Koos Bekker

Net Worth: $1.9 BILLION
Industry: Media
Country of Citizenship: South Africa
Age: 61
Number of Jobs Created: 741

26 Mohamed Al-Fayed

Net Worth: $1.9 BILLION
Industry: Real Estate
Country of Citizenship: Egypt
Age: 85
Number of Jobs Created: 1,900


27 Theophilus Danjuma

Net Worth: $1.8 BILLION
Industry: Oil and Gas
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 75
Number of Jobs Created: 4,400


28 Manu Chandaria

Net Worth: $1.7 BILLION
Industry: Manufacturing
Country of Citizenship: Kenya
Age: 85
Number of Jobs Created: 37,600

Kenyan-born Manu Chandaria’s is the Chairman of Comcraft Group, a multinational industrial conglomerate employing more than 40,000 people across 45 countries on four continents.

29 Desmond Sacco
Net Worth: $1.7 BILLION
Industry: Mining
Country of Citizenship: South Africa
Age: 72
Number of Jobs Created: 2,850



30Stephen Saad
Net Worth: $1.7 BILLION
Industry: Health Care
Country of Citizenship: South Africa
Age: 50
Number of Jobs Created: 665


31 Tony Elumelu

Net Worth: $1.6 BILLION
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 51
Number of Jobs Created: 1,325

32 Onsi Sawiris

Net Worth: $1.5 BILLION
Industry: Construction
Country of Citizenship: Egypt
Age: 84
Number of Jobs Created: 10,260

33 Anas Sefrioui

Net Worth: $1.5 BILLION
Industry: Real Estate
Country of Citizenship: Morocco
Age: 57
Number of Jobs Created: 4,570


34 Amirali Karmali

Net Worth: $1.5 BILLION
Industry: Manufacturing
Country of Citizenship: Uganda
Age: 81
Number of Jobs Created: 6,580


35 Aziz Akhannouch

Net Worth: $1.5 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Morocco
Age: 53
Number of Jobs Created: 2,000


36 Abdulsamad Rabiu

Net Worth: $1.5 BILLION
Industry: Manufacturing
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 54
Number of Jobs Created: 3,159




37 Mohammed Ibrahim

Net Worth: $1.4 BILLION
Industry: Telecommunications
Country of Citizenship: Sudan
Age: 68
Number of Jobs Created: 2,085


38 Igho Sanomi

Net Worth: $1.3 BILLION
Industry: Oil and Gas
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 39
Number of Jobs Created: 1,300


39 Sudhir Ruparelia

Net Worth: $1.3 BILLION
Industry: Real Estate
Country of Citizenship: Uganda
Age: 58
Number of Jobs Created: 8,000



40 Rostam Aziz

Net Worth: $1.2 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Tanzania
Age: 54
Number of Jobs Created: 1,639




41
Dr ABC Orjiakor

Net Worth: $1.2 BILLION
Industry: Oil and Gas
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 54
Number of Jobs Created: 2,225


42 Bode Akindele

Net Worth: $1.2 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 81
Number of Jobs Created: 1,250


43 Emmanuel Ojei

Net Worth: $1.2 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 63
Number of Jobs Created: 2,000



44 Mohamed Indimi

Net Worth: $1.1 BILLION
Industry: Oil and Gas
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 66
Number of Jobs Created: 1,000

45 Ob Lulu-Briggs

Net Worth: $1.1 BILLION
Industry: Oil and Gas
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 84
Number of Jobs Created: 2,000



46 Michael Ibru

Net Worth: $1.1 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 84
Number of Jobs Created: 13,000


47 47. Samih Sawiris

Net Worth: $1.1 BILLION
Industry: Real Estate
Country of Citizenship: Egypt
Age: 57
Number of Jobs Created: 16,104


48 Nicholas Biwott

Net Worth: $1.1 BILLION
Industry: Real Estate
Country of Citizenship: Kenya
Age: 74
Number of Jobs Created: 700

49 Sani Bello

Net Worth: $1 BILLION
Industry: Oil and Gas
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 72
Number of Jobs Created: 9,400

50 Strive Masiyiwa

Net Worth: $1 BILLION
Industry: Telecommunications
Country of Citizenship: Zimbabwe
Age: 53
Number of Jobs Created: 3,970


51 Mama Ngina Kenyatta

Net Worth: $1 BILLION
Industry: Real Estate
Country of Citizenship: Kenya
Age: 81
Number of Jobs Created: 50


52 Tunde Folawiyo

Net Worth: $1 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age 54
Number of Jobs Created: 1,000


53 Aminu Dantata

Net Worth: $1 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 83
Number of Jobs Created: 800


54 Oba Otudeko

Net Worth: $1 BILLION
Industry: Manufacturing
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 71
Number of Jobs Created: 3,000



55 Akanimo Udofia

Net Worth: $1 BILLION
Industry: Diversified
Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
Age: 45
Number of Jobs Created: 800



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Number 4 has no name. So I'm guessing she's Folorunsho Alakija

GOD!

StPete:
Number 4 has no name. So I'm guessing she's Folorunsho Alakija

Sorry corrected

All this list without The real richest man in Nigeria and africa Alh. Atiku Abubakar is trashhh dat man get payy pass d glorified loaned dangotte'

Oil n gas is synonymous to Nigerians wealth

Papertrail11:
All this list without The real richest man in Nigeria and africa Alh. Atiku Abubakar is trashhh dat man get payy pass d glorified loaned dangotte'

error...

binie:
Oil n gas is synonymous to Nigerians wealth

I agree with you

So where's Orji Uzor Kalus' name?

The Politicians will be laughing at these people

IGBOSON1:
So where's Orji Uzor Kalus' name?

Politicians and Former Politicians are not included in the rich list

Nigeria making waves on Africa rich list.

major466:
Nigeria making waves on Africa rich list.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

ducii:


Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Check out the countries with the biggest economies like America, China and Russia and you will realize they all have something in common with Nigeria.

major466:

Check out the countries with the biggest economies like America, China and Russia and you will realize they all have something in common with Nigeria.

Yea True talk, as an Economy grows it is inevitable that you are going to have people who are smart to start taking advantage of the new growth the country is experiencing

SLIDEwaxie:
error...

I know atiku abubakars family well been to his house that aint far from ribadus familys house in yola adjasecent sha..

That main is one of the largest employers of labour in this country after dangote and has a lot of share in our naija banks .....

dangote is a shareholder in his company dat means oda pple share profit from dangote minus kickbacks.....

the calld stiku is no1 have u been to abti university dinnig hall cost about 450m bro just dinning minus oda facilities and how much he pays white professors .....mske I no too cast am here

where is ayiri sef on the list plus his mega refinery

Papertrail11:


I know atiku abubakars family well been to his house that aint far from ribadus familys house in yola adjasecent sha..

That main is one of the largest employers of labour in this country after dangote and has a lot of share in our naija banks .....

dangote is a shareholder in his company dat means oda pple share profit from dangote minus kickbacks.....

the calld stiku is no1 have u been to abti university dinnig hall cost about 450m bro just dinning minus oda facilities and how much he pays white professors .....mske I no too cast am here

where is ayiri sef on the list plus his mega refinery

Atiku is an ex politiian, so that disqualifies him.

As for Ayiri, I don't know if Ayiri has up to a billion dollars.
I don't know him personally so I will not be able to say.

ducii:


Yea True talk, as an Economy grows it is inevitable that you are going to have people who are smart to start taking advantage of the new growth the country is experiencing

That's right.

ducii:


Politicians and Former Politicians are not included in the rich list

Who says? Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs was a big time politician in the second republic. I think he was NPN Chairman or Vice.

TY Danjuma was a politician in Uniform.

Click like if you believe you will make it one day.

Tranquill:


Who says? Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs was a big time politician in the second republic. I think he was NPN Chairman or Vice.

TY Danjuma was a politician in Uniform.

Oh I didn't Know, but I am not sure the obvious ones are included. other wise the likes of Obasanjo, Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar would have made the list

ducii:


Oh I didn't Know, but I am not sure the obvious ones are included. other wise the likes of Obasanjo, Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar would have made the list

Well for obvious reasons those ones are still hiding their real worth.

Coincidentally, Lulu-Brigg's wife is sister to Arthur Eze. I dont think its common to have one's husband and brother on forbes list.

All this Nigerian billionaires sef,na just for mouth..they can't create more jobs for the Nigerian market,imagine a whole alakija-800 jobs created smh btw lulu briggs can be passed as nearly dead,just saying,,actually from the ops picture of him so am just observing anddddd how come Gilbert chagoury is a Nigerian,na half caste or albino,,somebory explain

Dreyl:
Click like if you believe you will make it one day.

I don't need to click any like ..... " I know I will be in this list one day".... #basedonbelieve

So Emeka Offor is nt evn a billionaire?

mysticgal:
All this Nigerian billionaires sef,na just for mouth..they can't create more jobs for the Nigerian market,imagine a whole alakija-800 jobs created smh btw lulu briggs can be passed as nearly dead,just saying,,actually from the ops picture of him so am just observing anddddd how come Gilbert chagoury is a Nigerian,na half caste or albino,,somebory explain

He is a Nigerian by birth, he was born in Nigeria by his Lebanese parents. so he went to Lebanon, then came back to Nigeria

Ibeto will climb this ladder very fast.

He should hit $10bn in next one year list.

Why: don't ask..

Out of 55 billionaires, 23 are Nigerians.

This country is very great. My name shall be called one day. Wonder why Orji Uzor Kalu didn't make it.

Where are all those kids creating threads like AYIRI EMAMI Vs DANGOTE ?

Smh…

basilo101:
So Emeka Offor is nt evn a billionaire?

Emeka Offor is not a Dollar Billionaire

okparaugo:
Ibeto will climb this ladder very fast.

He should hit $10bn in next years list.

Why: don't ask..

You think so?

PLS what can I achieve with $1bn when i get it?

wayne4loan:
I don't need to click any like ..... " I know I will be in this list one day".... #basedonbelieve

very true,we shall all make it..