Who was Africa’s richest person on Forbes’ 2024 billionaire list?

Aliko Dangote was Africa’s richest person on Forbes’ 2024 billionaire list.

Dangote is a Nigerian businessman and the founder of the Dangote Group, a diversified conglomerate with major interests in cement, sugar, salt, and other commodities. Forbes has repeatedly ranked him as Africa’s richest individual.

His fortune is closely associated with Dangote Cement, one of the continent’s largest cement producers. The company’s expansion across African markets helped turn Dangote’s business from a trading operation into a major industrial group.

Dangote is sometimes confused with Nigerian billionaire Abdulsamad Rabiu, or with Egypt’s Nassef Sawiris. Those men also appear prominently on African wealth rankings, but Forbes placed Dangote first in the 2024 global billionaire edition.