Aliko Dangote
1957 – ? Nigerian industrialist, Dangote Group founder
Africa's richest person and a cement and refining magnate.
- Religion
- Muslim.
- Affiliations
- Founder and chairman of the Dangote Group, spanning cement, sugar and a giant oil refinery; funds the Aliko Dangote Foundation.
Aliko Dangote built a trading business into the Dangote Group, Africa's largest industrial conglomerate. He is Africa's richest person and opened one of the world's biggest oil refineries near Lagos in the 2020s. He is a major philanthropist across the continent.