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Africa billionaires
- On average, the continent’s billionaires are worth $4.7 billion now compared to the $3.4 billion in 2014
- Aliko’s wealth has been increasing exponentially, from $10.1 billion in 2020, $12.1 billion in 2021, and 13.9 billion in 2022
- Nigerian Abdulsamad’s worth has risen from $3.1 billion in2020 to $7 billion in 2022, arguably the best performer on the list.
The African economy is not doing so well. But that does not mean so are all the people on the continent!
Aliko Dangote, a business magnate in Nigeria, has topped the 2022 Forbes list of the richest men in Africa for the eleventh consecutive time.
Despite the Coronavirus pandemic, the continent’s 18 billionaires’ combined worth is 15 per cent more than it was in 2021, standing at roughly $84.9 billion.
On average, the continent’s billionaires are worth $4.7 billion now compared to the $3.4 billion in 2014.
Soaring stock prices across sub-Saharan …
The African continent has been portrayed in most literature as the “Dark Continent”, with not many expectations from it. This degrading view is slowly fading from the trending news globally, as the continent continues to headline great achievements.
There has not been a shortage of millionaires as well, with new six-figure worth individuals being added each year impacting the socio-economic outlook on the continent. …
Born on February 1, 1987, in Riverside County, California, Ronda Rousey suffered from speech problems for the first six years of her life. Her parents moved to Jamestown North Dakota for special and intensive speech therapy at Minot State University from Riverside when she was three years old. Her mother, AnnaMaria De Mars, was the first American woman to win the World Judo Championship. Together with the World Judo Championship winner, her mother holds a Ph.D. at the University of California, Riverside. She pursues her degree while raising her daughters. Ronda’s father, Ron Rousey, committed suicide in 1995 after breaking his spine and learning that he would be paralyzed.
Ronda Rousey Net Worth
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Ronda Rousey is an American MMA and judo contestant with a net worth of $ 13 million. She was one of the most popular and successful female MMA fighters of all time, later on, …
Who is Strive Masiyiwa
Mr Strive Masiyiwa was born in 1961 he is the best renown as the founder and director of the broadcast communications Econet Wireless and is one of Africa’s richest men.
He founded Econet in 1993 but not without sweat and blood, the Zimbabwean government was not having it. The government went against Mr Masiyiwa in a landmark legal battle for almost five years.
While today Econet is the largest telecommunications company in Zimbabwe with operations in Kenya and Burundi too, the company did not go to market until 1998.
That was not the only war Mr Masiyiwa, who is one of the wealthiest Africans,
had to fight with the government, as the publisher of Zimbabwe’s only independent newspaper, the Daily News, he was confronted with the government and well, you win some you lose some and in 2003, Daily News was shut down by the government.…
