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Abdulsamad Rabiu
Abdulsamad Rabiu, also written Abdul Samad Rabiu, is a Nigerian businessman born in 1960 in Kano who founded BUA Group in 1988 and chairs BUA Cement and BUA Foods.
Abubaker Varachhia
Abubaker Varachhia, known as Abu Varachhia, is a South African property entrepreneur who co-founded Cape Town-based Spear REIT in 2011 and serves as its non-executive chairman.
Adeyemi Lawson
Chief Adeyemi Olusola Lawson (1924–1993) was a Nigerian lawyer, industrialist, and chamber-of-commerce leader best known as a founding father of the pan-African Ecobank Group, incorporated in Lomé, Togo, in 1985.
Adrian Gore
Adrian Gore is a South African businessman who founded Discovery Limited in 1992 and serves as its Group Chief Executive, creating the Vitality shared-value insurance model.
Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede
Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is a Nigerian lawyer-turned-banker who led Access Bank from 2002 to 2013, transforming it into one of Nigeria's top five banks, and later founded the Coronation Group.
Aiteo Group
Aiteo Group is a privately held, Lagos-based Nigerian integrated energy company founded by Benedict Peters, with operations in oil and gas production, storage, trading, and electrical power.
Arthur Eze
Arthur Eze, born 1948 in Ukpo, Nigeria, is an oil businessman and founder of Atlas Oranto Petroleum, an Abuja-based group holding licenses across roughly a dozen African countries.
Atlas Oranto Petroleum
Atlas Oranto Petroleum is an Abuja-headquartered oil and gas exploration and production group founded by Nigerian businessman Prince Arthur Eze, holding 22 licenses across 12 African countries.
Baba Ahmadou Danpullo
Baba Ahmadou Danpullo, born in 1950, is a Cameroonian businessman who founded and solely owns the Baba Ahmadou Group, a family holding active in tea, flour, livestock, and telecoms.
Baba Ahmadou Group
The Baba Ahmadou Group is a Douala-based, family-owned Cameroonian conglomerate founded by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo in 1976, with operations in Cameroon, South Africa, Nigeria, and Switzerland.
Benedict Peters
Benedict Peters is a Nigerian businessman, born in 1966, who founded and leads Aiteo, an oil and gas producer built on the 2015 OML 29 purchase.
Bhimji Depar Shah
Bhimji Depar Shah, born in 1931 in Mombasa, is a Kenyan industrialist who founded the Bidco group in 1970 and built it into Kenya's leading edible oil producer.
Bidco Africa
Bidco Africa, also known as Bidco Industries, is a Kenyan family-owned manufacturer of edible oils, soaps, and detergents, founded in 1985 and headquartered in Thika.
Bill Lynch
Bill Lynch was an Irish-born South African transport entrepreneur who joined Imperial Holdings in 1971 and built it into South Africa's largest transport and mobility conglomerate.
BUA Cement
BUA Cement is a Lagos-based, Nigerian Exchange-listed cement producer, the second-largest in Nigeria, formed in 2019 by the merger of CCNN with Obu Cement and controlled by Abdul Samad Rabiu.
Bua Group
BUA Group is a Nigerian conglomerate headquartered in Lagos, founded in 1988 by Abdul Samad Rabiu as a commodity trader, now active in cement, sugar, flour, and rice.
Cevital
Cevital is a privately held Algerian food-processing and industrial conglomerate founded in 1998 by Issad Rebrab, and is Algeria's largest privately held company, operating one of the world's largest sugar refineries.
Christoffel Wiese
Christoffel Wiese, known publicly as Christo Wiese, is a South African retail billionaire who built Pepkor, chaired Shoprite for 29 years, and lost billions in the 2017 Steinhoff scandal.
Conoil
Conoil is a Nigerian oil marketing company controlled by Mike Adenuga, tracing its operations to 1927 as a Shell marketing business and renamed Conoil in 2003.
Coscharis Group
Coscharis Group is a Nigerian conglomerate founded by Cosmas Maduka in 1977, holding Nigerian franchises for BMW, Ford, and Rolls-Royce; the name combines his and Charity's names.
Cosmas Maduka
Cosmas Maduka is a Nigerian businessman who founded the Coscharis Group in 1977 with N300, growing it from auto spare parts into a multinational with sole Nigerian franchises for BMW, Rolls-Royce, and Ford.
Craig Irvine
Craig Irvine is a Southern African poultry executive and Group CEO of Irvine's Group, a family-owned integrated poultry producer operating across Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and beyond.
Dangote Cement
Dangote Cement is a Nigerian cement manufacturer and the largest producer in sub-Saharan Africa, with about 55 million tonnes of annual capacity across 11 African countries.
Dangote Petroleum Refinery
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery is a petroleum refinery in the Lekki Free Trade Zone near Lagos, Nigeria, the largest in Africa at 650,000 barrels per day.
Davison Norupiri
Davison Norupiri is a Zimbabwean businessman who founded and leads Davipel Trading, a Harare dried-food manufacturer, and won the 2018 EY Southern Africa World Entrepreneur Award.
Debbie Merdjan
Debbie Merdjan, also known as Deborah Merdjan, is a South African businesswoman who founded and leads the Camelot Group, a spa and wellness company based in Johannesburg.
East African Holding
East African Holding is a family-owned, diversified industrial group headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, tracing its stated roots to an 1891 mule-caravan trading enterprise and spanning consumer goods, agriculture, cement, mining, and logistics.
Ecobank Group
Ecobank Group is a pan-African banking group headquartered in Lomé, Togo, founded in 1985 to integrate Africa's financial markets, serving over 30 million customers across sub-Saharan Africa.
Elba Ranch
Elba Ranch is a private, family-run livestock breeding company in Cameroon, founded in 1976 by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo, with ranches at Ndawara, Esu, and Batcham holding over 20,000 cattle.
Ernest Oppenheimer
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (1880–1957) was a German-born South African diamond and gold mining entrepreneur who founded Anglo American in 1917 and became chairman of De Beers in 1929.