Africa’s most extravagant man, Aliko Dangote, became $4.3 billion more extravagant in 2019 as his fortune kept on developing on the rear of interests in concrete, flour and sugar.
The 62-year-old Nigerian businessperson and Africa’s most conspicuous industrialist finished the decade with a total assets of nearly $15 billion, making him the 96th wealthiest man on the planet, as indicated by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Naturally introduced to a rich Muslim group of dealers in the north, Dangote fused his own business selling concrete at 21.
He moved to assembling the structure material during the 1990s, helped by government strategies that urged approaches to decrease the requirement for imports.
His aggregate, Dangote Industries, incorporates the greatest concrete organization on the mainland, the Lagos-recorded Dangote Cement Plc. That is one of four traded on an open market organizations under the Dangote umbrella that record for in excess of a fifth of the estimation of the Nigerian stock trade.
The year 2020 could be a critical one for the extremely rich person, who is near finishing one of the world’s biggest petroleum treatment facilities in Nigeria.
The plant has the ability to meet more than Nigeria’s whole fuel utilization and could change an economy that right now imports all its refined item needs.
Dangote is additionally developing a compost industrial facility on a similar site.
