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The Richest Africans is an annual ranking of the richest African people, compiled and published by the American business magazine Forbes. The list has been published since 2015. Dangote Group founder Aliko Dangote has topped the 2018 list. [1] In 2018, there was a record of 23 African billionaires on the list. [2]
Patricia Poku-Diaby is a Ghanaian businesswoman, cocoa merchant and the CEO of Plot Enterprise Ghana Limited. In 2015, she was named the eighth richest person in Ghana and the richest woman in Ghana, with a net worth of $720 million. [1] [2] She is the founder and CEO of Plot Enterprise Group, a cocoa processing company in Ghana. [3]
Ibrahim Mahama (born 29 January 1971) is a Ghanaian businessman and founder of Engineers and Planners, [1] a West African indigenously-owned mining company. He owns other businesses in Ghana, including Dzata Cement Limited.
Kevin's company, Springfield, was given the block, known as West Cape Three Points Block 2, by Ghana’s government in 2016 after it was relinquished by Kosmos. [4] Also, the company is the leader in exporting refined products to land-lock neighbouring countries such as Mali and Burkina Faso and Nigerian crude. [5]
Benedict Peters is a pan-African billionaire businessman with extensive assets in the oil and gas and mining industries. [1] He is the founder and CEO of Aiteo, Africa's largest indigenous oil producer, and Bravura Holdings, a vertically integrated mining company developing platinum, lithium, steel, copper, and gold assets in countries throughout Africa, including Ghana, Democratic Republic of ...
In 2011, Kofi Amoa-Abban started Rigworld from a small office in Osu, Accra providing recruitment services to the burgeoning oil and gas industry in Ghana. [4] Prior to that, he had served as a drill crew member with Atwood Hunter responsible for the TEAK1, TEAK 2, and Banda Wells. [3]
Saudi Arabian billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi, of Hadhrami Yemeni and Ethiopian descent, has been on the Forbes billionaire list since 2002 and in 2012 had a net worth of $12.5 billion. [8] Michael Lee-Chin of Canada, who is Jamaican of Chinese and Black ancestry, was on the list from 2001 to 2010 but dropped off in 2011. [ 9 ]
In the 33rd annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the list included 2,153 billionaires with a total net wealth of $8.7 trillion, down 55 members and $400 billion from 2018. [15] The U.S. continued to have the most billionaires in the world, with a record of 609, while China dropped to 324 (when not including Hong Kong , Macau and ...