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The African continent has produced many wealthy people; with over 28 known billionaires. According the Forbes’ 2014 list of Africa’s 50 Richest, these are the richest people in Africa.
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20) Aziz Akhannouch – Net Worth: $1.8 Billion (Moroccan)
Aziz Akhannouch is the majority shareholder of Akwa Group, a multibillion-dollar Moroccan conglomerate with interests in petroleum, gas and chemicals through its publicly traded subsidiaries.

19) Onsi Sawiris – Net Worth: $1.9 Billion (Egyptian)
This 84-year-old billionaire is the patriarch of Egypt’s richest family. He founded the Orascom Construction Industries. Currently his son Nassef heads the company.

18) Stephen Saad – Net Worth: $1.9 Billion (South African)
Stephen Saad is the founder of Aspen Pharmacare, the largest pharmaceutical company in Africa. His wealth increased by $400 million over the past year due to increase in the company’s stock price.

17) Koos Bekker – Net Worth: $2 Billion (South African)
Bekker stepped down as CEO of media conglomerate Naspers in February 2014, but that did not stop the stock from rising in double digits.

16) King Mohammed VI – Net Worth: $2.1 Billion (Moroccan)
The king of Morocco is the 7th richest royal in the world. He celebrated his 15th year on the throne in July 2014. He inherited around 40 percent stake in Societe Nationale d’Investissement from his father.

15) Patrice Motsepe – Net Worth: $2.3 Billion (South African)
Patrice Motsepe is a self-made billionaire who is the founder and chairman of African Rainbow Minerals. He is South Africa’s first and only black billionaire.

14) Yasseen Mansour – Net Worth: $2.3 Billion (Egyptian)
Yasseen and his billionaire brothers Mohammed and Youssef run Mansour Group. The Group owns caterpillar dealerships in many African nations.

13) Othman Benjelloun – Net Worth: $2.4 Billion (Moroccan)
This 82-year-old billionaire has interests in insurance, banking and telecom in Morocco through his holding company FinanceCom. He is the CEO of BMCE Bank.

12) Folorunsho Alakija – Net Worth: $2.5 Billion (Nigerian)
Folorunsho Alakija is the second richest woman in Africa and third richest black woman in the world. She controls Famfa Oil. She founded the Rose of Sharon Foundation in 2008. It works to help widows and orphans.

11) Youssef Mansour – Net Worth: $2.9 Billion (Egyptian)
The Egyptian billionaire maintains a lower profile than his billionaire brothers Mohamed and Yasseen. All the brothers have stake in Mansour Group.

10) Naguib Sawiris – Net Worth: $3.1 Billion (Egyptian)
Naguib Sawiris resumed as CEO at his company Orascom Telecom Media & Technology (OTMT) in October 2013. Share prices increased by more than 7 percent due to this.

9) Issad Rebrab & family – Net Worth: $3.2 Billion (Algerian)
Issad Rebrab is the founder of Cevital, Algeria’s largest privately held conglomerate, which owns one of the largest sugar refineries in the world.

Isabel dos Santos – Net Worth: $3.7 Billion (Angolan)
Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos is working to expand her stable of investments. She is the daughter of Angola’s longtime president Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

7) Mohamed Mansour – Net Worth: $4 billion (Egyptian)
Mohamed oversees the Mansour Group. He reported an increase in sales in the family’s GM car business, which had taken a dive due to the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

6) Mike Adenuga – Net Worth: $4.6 Billion (Nigerian)
The second richest man in Nigeria. Mike Adenuga made his fortune through investments in mobile telecom and oil production.

5) Christoffel Wiese – Net Worth: $5.4 Billion (South African)
South African self-made billionaire continues to chase deals; adding his fortune. The retailing tycoon announced plans to swap his minority stake in IT company DigiCore for a stake in ConvergeNet.

4) Nassef Sawiris – Net Worth: $6.1 Billion (Egyptian)
Nassef Sawiris is the wealthiest man in Egypt. The 53-year-old billionaire won a tax evasion case that had pitted him against the government of former Egyptian president Morsi.

3) Nicky Oppenheimer Net Worth: $6.8 Billion (South African)
The Oppenheimer family ended its 85-year reign atop diamond giant De Beers in 2012, when Nicky Oppenheimer sold his 40 percent stake to Anglo American for $5.1 billion.

2) Johann Rupert – Net worth: $7.3 Billion (South African)
Johann Rupert is a luxury goods billionaire. He is the chairman of Compagnie Financiere Richemont, a Swiss company best known for brands like Cartier and Montblanc. Rupert owns 7 percent stake in Remgro and 25 percent of Reinet. He worked for sometime at Chase Manhattan Bank. He has been a vocal opponent of fracking.

1) Aliko Dangote – Net worth: $21.6 Billion (Nigerian)
The world’s richest black man. He is heralded by some as the face of the new Nigeria. He is the wealthiest man in Africa. He built his fortune through three commodities: sugar, cement, flour and he plans to invest in oil.
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These wealthy people are highly influential and inspire many people in the continent.
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