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Forbes Africa Under 30 opens nominations for 2019

Attention entrepreneurs,creatives, sport stars and technology geeks — the 2019 FORBES AFRICA Under 30 nominations are now open. FORBES AFRICA is on the hunt for Africans under the age of 30, who are building brands, creating jobs and representing and transforming the continent, to join the Under 30 community of 2019.

JOHANNESBURG, 17 January 2019: FORBES AFRICA is on the hunt for Africans under the age of 30, who are building brands, creating jobs and representing and transforming the continent, to join the Under 30 community for 2019.

Each year, FORBES AFRICA looks for resilient self-starters, innovators, entrepreneurs and disruptors who have the acumen to stay the course in their chosen field, come what may.

Past honorees include Kwesta, Nomzamo Mbatha, Ink Eze, Isaya Yunge, Jokate Mwegelo, Yannick Nzonde, Gilbert Eugene Peters, Yemi Alade, Vere Shaba, Kevin Lubega, Davido, Rivo Mhlari, Nasty C and Wiz Kid.

“2019 will be the fifth anniversary of the FORBES AFRICA Under 30 list. Every year, there emerges, in the continent of a billion-plus people, young luminaries who are blazing a trail to the finish line, and the idea of the list is to unearth and uncover them on their way up,” says FORBES AFRICA’s Managing Editor, Methil Renuka.

In addition to the three categories – Creatives, Technology and Business in 2018, this year, FORBES AFRICA introduces a new category — Sports.

“Leaders are also born in the world of sport. It requires grit and determination to be a game-changer and they definitely need to be celebrated early,” says Renuka.

If you think you have what it takes to be on this year’s list or know an entrepreneur, creative, technology entrepreneur or sports star under 30 with a proven track-record on the continent – introduce them to FORBES AFRICA by submitting your nomination.

Nominations close on 15 February 2019.

NOMINATIONS CRITERIA:

Business and Technology categories

Must bean entrepreneur aged 29 or younger on 30 June 2019
Should have a legitimate REGISTERED business on the continent
Business or businesses should be two years or older
Nominees must have risked own money and have a social impact
Must be profit generating
Must employ people in Africa
All applications must be in English
Should be available and prepared to participate in the Under 30 Meet-Up
Sports Category

Must be a sports person aged 29 or younger on 30 June 2019
Must be representing an African team
Should have a proven track record of no less than two years
Should be making significant earnings
Should have some endorsement deals
Entrepreneurship and social impact is a plus

All applications must be in English
Should be available and prepared to participate in the Under 30 Meet-Up
Creatives

Must be a creative aged 29 or younger on 30 June 2019
Must be from or based in Africa
Should be making significant earnings
Should have a proven creative record of no less than two years
Must have social influence
Entrepreneurship and social impact is a plus
All applications must be in English
Should be available and prepared to participate in the Under 30 Meet-Up
Your entry should include:

Country
Full Name
Company name/Team
A short reason why they should be an Under 30
Links of published material about nominee
Contact information
Share your photographs, via email. Nominations must be sent to

30under30@abn360.com, Ancillar.Mangena@abn360.com and Karen.Mwendera@abn360.com

All nominees will be vetted by a panel, FORBES AFRICA editors and the editorial team.
https://www.cnbcafrica.com/news/special-report/2019/01/17/forbes-africa-under-30-2019-nominations-open/

FORBES AFRICA UNDER 30?
Daftness at its highest ebb.
You can tell your fake billionaires to put in for this.
You will like this... Britannia U has U- turned and she is now the most innovative under 30 'oilly' bae in the world

sweetjohn:
Hawk Gala, and are building Mansion in the South east, while you that are jobless are still foolishly praising David and Wizkid as if ten kobo of their money was added your account. You need surgery in your brain

show me the thread where am praising davido or WizKid or thunder will fire u tonight. wretched soul

sweetjohn:
My friend, you are a poor jobless yahoo boy

am sure I can buy u and ur poor wretched family.

mercyville:
FORBES AFRICA UNDER 30?
Daftness at its highest ebb.
You can tell your fake billionaires to put in for this.
You will like this... Britannia U has U- turned and she is now the most innovative under 30 'oilly' bae in the world

Otondo I used the report as an example. Forbes always send invitation,if you are interested, you pay thier bills, they launder your Image, if you are not interested, they will not mention your name, that's how they operate.

Honor10:
am sure I can buy u and ur poor wretched family.

You are a small stupid penniless yahoo boy

Honor10:
show me the thread where am praising davido or WizKid or thunder will fire u tonight. wretched soul

Davido and Wizkid are the greatest achievers in south west. Some of your stupid and demented SW brothers confirm it here

sweetjohn:
Davido and Wizkid are the greatest achievers in south west. Some of your stupid and demented SW brothers confirm it here

you are senseless being, yes, they are; at least no one in ur tribe is half as useful or important or achieve half of either of the duo. kill urself.

sweetjohn:
You are a small stupid penniless yahoo boy

your father is more stupid.

sweetjohn:
Igbo poorest in the South. You are a lying drunk idiot

You are an illiterate dirty, smelling chewing sticks hawker.

TundeBricklayer:
Otondo I used the report as an example. Forbes always send invitation,if you are interested, you pay thier bills, they launder your Image, if you are not interested, they will not mention your name, that's how they operate.

I pray not all Igbos are this daft.
Okay.They forgot to send invitation to Otedola,Kalu and co this year,abi Dafty?

mercyville:
I pray not all Igbos are this daft.
Okay.They forgot to send invitation to Otedola,Kalu and co this year,abi Dafty?

Otondo is Orji richer than Peter Obi

mercyville:
I pray not all Igbos are this daft.
Okay.They forgot to send invitation to Otedola,Kalu and co this year,abi Dafty?

Uju Catherine is the first and so far, the only woman to become chair and CEO of an Upstream Exploration and Production Company in Nigeria.

https://www.nairaland.com/5206814/uju-ifejika-listed-among-six

mercyville:
You are an illiterate dirty, smelling chewing sticks hawker.

You are the king of illiterate, Scallywagious Nincompoop, dirty fool from a dirty tribe

Honor10:
your father is more stupid.

Do you even have a father... Frustrated Yahoo boy

Honor10:
you are senseless being, yes, they are; at least no one in ur tribe is half as useful or important or achieve half of either of the duo. kill urself.

Foolish people from a foolish nation

sweetjohn:
You are the king of illiterate, Scallywagious Nincompoop, dirty fool from a dirty tribe

Illiterate, dirty,smelling,pungent smell chewing sticks hawker from a dirty,smelling stinking cannibal tribe.

mercyville:
Illiterate, dirty,smelling,pungent smell chewing sticks hawker from a dirty,smelling stinking cannibal tribe.

It is better to hawk than to be involved in Agboros, yahoo yahoo, begging, and playing baba ijebu. A useless nation bleeding useless homo sapiens

sweetjohn:
It is better to hawk than to be involved in Agboros, yahoo yahoo, begging, and playing baba ijebu. A useless nation bleeding useless homo sapiens

Shut up.Illiterate, dirty,smelling,pungent smell chewing sticks hawker from a dirty,smelling stinking cannibal tribe.

mercyville:
Shut up.Illiterate, dirty,smelling,pungent smell chewing sticks hawker from a dirty,smelling stinking cannibal tribe.

You probably know that you are not measured up to me academically. Pls focus on your yahoo business I am not your type idiotic slowpoke

sweetjohn:
You probably know that you are not measured up to me academically. Pls focus on your yahoo business I am not your type idiotic slowpoke

Shut up.Dirty cannibal.

mercyville:
Shut up.Dirty cannibal.

Empty barrel

sweetjohn:
Empty barrel

IPOB cannibal from a smelling tribe.

mercyville:
IPOB cannibal from a smelling tribe.

Even the Hausas knew that you and your useless tribe are the most dirty and smiling creatures on earth. Idiot
Who does not know you people?

silverbirdng:
No femi otedola, I smile lies everywhere.

funny you. Otedola is not as wealthy as he is famous. the man is just well known thanks in part to musicians. him no really get this cash.

eyinjuege:
Mike Adenuga is the prototype for silent billionaire.
You cannot hear anything about him, and even hardly about his children. I love that lifestyle.
He is following Dangote bumper to bumper. I always assumed Dangote was several billion dollars ahead of him..

am telling you. unlike the Otedolas that ain't even dollar billionaires. I laugh when people mention billionaires in Nigeria and the name that pops up after dangote is Otedola. very funny

But I read on the other thread that Arthur Eze is worth 5.8 billion dollars? How come he's not on the list? We will not take it

Maybe his source of wealth could not be verified

Elemosho478:
Of the 2,153 people who made it to the 2019 FORBES list of the World’s Billionaires, 13 of them are black, up from 11 a year ago.

Cement tycoon Aliko Dangote is still the richest black person in the world with a fortune estimated at $10.9 billion. He’s closely followed by Nigerian oil and telecoms mogul Mike Adenuga.

American businessman David Stewart, who is majority owner of World Wide Technology, an $11.2 billion (sales) IT provider, whose customers include Citi, Verizon and the federal government, joins the Black Billionaires Club with a fortune FORBES estimates at $3 billion. Nigerian businessman Abdulsamad Rabiu, who made his fortune in cement, flour, edible oils and real estate, returns to the 3-Comma club after a multi-year hiatus. He last featured on the FORBES list of the World’s Billionaires in 2014. In December 2018, Rabiu merged his privately owned Kalambaina Cement Company with listed firm Cement Co. of Northern Nigeria, which he controlled. The new, larger company has a market capitalization of more than $800 million, with Rabiu owning more than 90% of the company’s stock. The value of his shares in the new Cement Co. of Northern Nigeria provided a shot in the arm to his fortune, which FORBES estimates at $1.6 billion.

Nigeria’s Folorunsho Alakija, American TV mogul Oprah Winfrey and Angolan investor Isabel dos Santos still remain the only black female billionaires in the world.


These are the 13 richest black people on earth:


Aliko Dangote, $10.9 billion


Nigerian, Sugar, Cement, Flour

The Cement and commodities tycoon retains his title as the world’s richest black man this year. After building his fortune in sugar, flour and cement, the Nigerian tycoon is embarking on his most ambitious project to date- a private oil refinery in Nigeria which will have a refining capacity of 6500,000 barrels a day and is expected to reduce Nigeria’s dependence on oil imports. Dangote started out in business more than 3 decades ago by trading in commodities like cement, flour and sugar with a loan he received from his maternal uncle and went on to build the Dangote Group, the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa.


Mike Adenuga, $9.1 billion


Nigerian, Oil, Telecoms


Nigerian-born Mike Adenuga, the world’s second richest black person, built his fortune in oil and mobile telecoms. His Conoil Producing Company was one of the first indigenous Nigerian companies to be granted an oil exploration license in the early 90s. The company is the operator of six blocks in the Niger Delta and also owns a25% stake in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ) Block 4. He is also the founder and sole owner of Globacom, a Nigerian mobile phone network that has more than 40 million subscribers in Nigeria and neighboring African countries. His property company, Cobblestone Properties, owns hundreds of prime residential and commercial property all over Nigeria.

Robert F. Smith, $5 billion


American, Private Equity

Robert F. Smith, a former Goldman Sachs executive, is the founder of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners that focuses exclusively on investing in software companies. The firm has more than $46 billion in assets and is one of the best-performing private equity firms, posting annualized returns of 22% since inception.

David Steward, $ 3 billion


American, Tech

David Steward is the cofounder and chairman of IT provider World Wide Technology, World Wide Technology, an $11.2 billion (sales) IT provider, whose customers include Citi, Verizon and the federal government.


Oprah Winfrey, $2.5 billion


American, Television


Oprah is still the richest African-American woman in the world thanks largely to the 25 years of her profitable daytime TV show and earnings from her Harpo production company. Her cable channel, OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) is also cash flow positive for the first time and is enjoying favorable ratings as a result of securing exclusive TV interviews with headline-grabbers like disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, Beyonce and gay NBA player Jason Collins. One of America’s most generous philanthropists, Oprah continues to give to education causes and has spent about $100 million on the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.


Strive Masiyiwa, $2.4 billion


Zimbabwean, Telecoms

Masiyiwa, who is worth $2.4 billion, is the founder of Econet, one of the leading mobile telecoms companies in Africa. It has more than 10 million subscribers spread across Zimbabwe, Botswana, Burundi and Lesotho. In February, he pledged the sum of $100 million to establish a fund to invest in rural entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe.


Isabel Dos Santos, $2.3 billion


Angolan, Investments

The oldest daughter of Angola’s former president, Isabel dos Santos has built an impressive investment portfolio what includes a 25% stake in Angolan mobile phone company Unitel and a 25% stake in Angolan bank Banco BIC SA. Other holdings include a substantial stake in Nos SGPS, a Portuguese cable TV company and just under 20% of Banco BPI, one of Portugal’s largest publicly traded banks.

Patrice Motsepe, $2.3 billion


South African, Mining

South Africa’s first and only black billionaire is the founder of African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), a Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed mining company that has in platinum, nickel, chrome, iron, manganese, coal, copper and gold. He also owns a large stake in African Rainbow Capital, a private equity firm focusing on investments in the financial services sector.


Michael Jordan, $1.9 billion


American, Basketball


Basketball’s greatest player is the majority shareholder of Charlotte Bobcats and enjoys lucrative deals with the likes of Gatorade, Hanes and Upper Deck. His biggest pile comes from Brand Jordan, a $1 billion (sales) sportswear partnership with Nike.


Michael Lee-Chin, $1.9 billion


Canadian, Investments

Lee-Chin, a Canadian of Jamaican origin, made a fortune investing in financial companies. He owns a 65% stake in National Commercial Bank Jamaica, which makes up the bulk of his fortune.


Abdulsamad Rabiu, $1.6 billion


Nigerian, Cement, Sugar

Abdulsamad Rabiu is the founder of BUA Group, a Nigerian conglomerate with interests in sugar refining, cement production, real estate, steel, port concessions, manufacturing, oil gas and shipping. BUA Group’s annual revenues are estimated at over $2 billion. Abdulsamad got his start in business working for his father, Isyaku Rabiu, a successful businessman from Nigeria’s Northern region. He struck out on his own in 1988, importing rice, sugar, edible oils as well as steel and iron rods.


Folorunsho Alakija, $1.1 billion


Nigerian, Oil

Nigeria’s first female billionaire is the founder of Famfa Oil, a Nigerian company that owns a substantial participating interest in OML 127, a lucrative oil block on the Agbami deep-water oilfield in Nigeria. Alakija started off as a secretary in a Nigerian merchant bank in the 1970s, then quit her job to study fashion design in England. Upon her return, she founded a Nigerian fashion label that catered to upscale clientele, including Maryam Babangida, wife to Nigeria’s former military president Ibrahim Babangida.


Mohammed Ibrahim, $1.1 billion


British, Mobile Telecoms, Investments

Sudanese-born Mohammed “Mo” Ibrahim founded Celtel International in 1998, one of the first mobile phone companies serving Africa and the Middle East. He sold it to Kuwait’s Mobile Telecommunications Company for $3.4 billion in 2005 and pocketed $1.4 billion. In 2006 he founded the Mo Ibrahim Foundation which promotes good governance in Africa.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2019/03/05/the-black-billionaires-2019/amp/

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Whoa! As of March 2025, the Forbes USD billionaires' landscape or playing field has changed since 2019. 21 folks of African descent worldwide are now on the list up from just 13 folks in 2019. An increase of 8 USD billionaires.