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Famfa Oil
Famfa Oil is a Nigerian family-owned oil and gas company founded in 1991 by Modupe and Folorunso Alakija, best known for holding 60% of OML 127, which contains part of the Chevron-operated Agbami field.
Geregu Power Plc
Geregu Power Plc is a Nigerian electricity generation company operating a 435 megawatt gas-fired plant in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, listed on the Nigerian Exchange in 2022.
Gervais Koffi Djondo
Gervais Koffi Djondo is a Togolese businessman who co-founded Ecobank in 1985 with Adeyemi Lawson and later launched Asky Airlines; Ecobank reached $34.5 billion in assets across 39 countries by 2025.
GKK Group of Companies
The GKK Group of Companies is a Kampala-based Ugandan business group run under the name of its founder and chairman, Godfrey Kalule Kirumira, with interests in petroleum, real estate, and hospitality.
Globacom
Globacom, widely known as Glo, is a privately owned Nigerian telecommunications company founded by Mike Adenuga, launched in 2003, which pioneered per-second billing and owns the Glo-1 submarine cable.
Godfrey Kirumira
Godfrey Kirumira is a Ugandan businessman and philanthropist who chairs the GKK Group of Companies, a Kampala conglomerate, and serves as Honorary Consul of Namibia to Uganda.
Grit Real Estate Income Group
Grit Real Estate Income Group is a London Stock Exchange-listed investor in income-focused African commercial real estate outside South Africa, holding 33 assets across 11 territories valued at about US$989 million in 2025.
Hassanein Hiridjee
Hassanein Hiridjee (born 1975) is a Malagasy businessman who co-founded AXIAN Group with his brother Amin in 2015, a pan-African conglomerate headquartered in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Heirs Holdings
Heirs Holdings is a family-owned African investment holding company founded in 2010 by Tony O. Elumelu, taking long-term stakes in power, energy, financial services, and healthcare across 24 countries.
Ibukun Awosika
Ibukun Awosika is a Nigerian businesswoman who founded The Chair Centre Group, a furniture and security-systems manufacturer, and became the first woman to chair First Bank of Nigeria in 2015.
Ike Chalumbira
Isaac 'Ike' Chalumbira, who publishes as Ike Cha, is a Zimbabwean-born South African entrepreneur and founder of Lionshare, a Johannesburg investment holding group covering property, logistics, and fuel.
Issad Rebrab
Issad Rebrab, born 1944, is an Algerian businessman who founded Cevital in 1998, building it into Algeria's largest privately held company; Forbes ranks him Algeria's richest man.
Jannie Mouton
Jannie Mouton is a South African billionaire businessman based in Stellenbosch who founded PSG Group in 1995 after being fired at 48, and co-founded Capitec Bank.
Judy Dlamini
Judy Dlamini, born in 1959, is a South African physician-turned-entrepreneur who founded the women-owned Mbekani Group in 1996, chaired Aspen Pharmacare, and became Chancellor of Wits University in 2018.
Jyotsna Ruparelia
Jyotsna Ruparelia is a Ugandan businesswoman and board director of the Ruparelia Group, the conglomerate her husband Sudhir founded in 1985, where she oversees finances, insurance, and property.
Koos Bekker
Koos Bekker (Jacobus Petrus Bekker) is a South African media investor who was chief executive of Naspers from 1997 to 2014, best known for its 2001 Tencent investment.
Kwagalana Group
The Kwagalana Group is a Kampala-based association of Uganda's wealthiest businesspeople, set up in 2002 and chaired by tycoon Godfrey Kirumira; members include Sudhir Ruparelia.
Manu Chandaria
Manu Chandaria (Manilal Premchand Chandaria), born 1929, is a Kenyan industrialist who chairs Comcraft Group, a family-owned steel and aluminum manufacturer, and founded the Chandaria Foundation in 1955.
Mbekani Group
The Mbekani Group is a Johannesburg-based diversified South African group founded in 1996 by Dr Judy Dlamini, operating in health, property, and facilities management and 100% African women-owned.
Modupe Alakija
Modupe Folarin Alakija is a Nigerian businessman who co-founded Famfa Oil Limited with his wife Folorunso Alakija in 1991, chairs its board, and holds 50 percent of the company.
Mohammed Indimi
Mohammed Indimi, born Muhammadu Indimi in 1947, is a Nigerian businessman who founded Oriental Energy Resources in 1990, an offshore oil and gas producer ranked by Forbes among Africa's richest.
Moulin Coq Rouge
Moulin Coq Rouge, also called Minoterie Le Coq Rouge, is a wheat flour mill in the Ndogsimbi district of Douala, Cameroon, owned by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo.
Ndawara Tea Estate
Ndawara Tea Estate, also Ndawara Highland Tea Estate, is a large tea plantation in Cameroon's Northwest Region, owned by Baba Ahmadou Danpullo and exporting mainly to Chad and Sudan.
O Capital Group
O Capital Group is a Moroccan family investment holding company created in 2021 through a merger, chaired by Othman Benjelloun, with a 35.5% stake in Bank of Africa.
Oriental Energy Resources
Oriental Energy Resources Limited is a privately owned Nigerian crude oil exploration and production company founded in 1990 by businessman Muhammadu Indimi and headquartered in Abuja.
Orji Uzor Kalu
Orji Uzor Kalu is a Nigerian businessman and politician who founded SLOK Holding, governed Abia State from 1999 to 2007, and has been a senator since 2019.
Polar Ice Cream Company
Polar Ice Cream Company is a privately held South African manufacturer of ice cream and frozen desserts, founded by Ashraf Mohamed in 1990 and based in Cape Town.
PSG Group
PSG Group was a South African investment holding company founded in 1995 by Jannie Mouton and Chris Otto, which grew to roughly R250bn in assets before delisting from the JSE in 2022.
Ramachandran Ottapathu
Ramachandran Ottapathu, known as Ram, is a Botswana-based retail executive and chartered accountant who has served as chief executive of Choppies, Botswana's largest retail chain, since 2004.
Rawbank
Rawbank is the largest bank in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by assets, founded in 2002 in Kinshasa by the Rawji family, who still control it.