The 2025 Forbes Billionaires Record parts a few of Africa’s richest of us, at the side of correctly-identified names adore Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga, and Femi Otedola. Since Forbes started tracking billionaires in 1987 with honest 140 of us, the list has grown greatly.
By 2025, it entails a record 3,028 billionaires worldwide, up by 247 from the yr sooner than. Collectively, these billionaires own a total wealth of $16.1 trillion, nearly $2 trillion bigger than in 2024.
Whereas the United States has the most billionaires with 902, adopted by China (at the side of Hong Kong) with 516, and India with 205, Africa additionally has a solid presence.
Africa’s richest are rising their wealth and influence in diversified replace areas. Forbes calculates their wealth essentially based totally on most recent stock prices and replace rates to provide an correct list.
Aliko Dangote
Topping the list with a rating price of $23.9 billion, Aliko Dangote’s wealth surged following the 2024 operational delivery up of his Dangote refinery, which greatly boosted his funds by $10.5 billion from the previous yr.
Mike Adenuga
Adenuga is the Proprietor of Globacom, a significant telecommunications firm, Adenuga holds a rating price of $6.8 billion, making him the fifth richest Dim billionaire globally.
Abdulsamad Rabiu
Founding father of BUA Community, Rabiu is sixth on the list with a wealth of $5.1 billion.
Adebayo Ogunlesi
CEO of World Infrastructure Companions (GIP), Ogunlesi has a rating price of $2.2 billion. He not too long ago increased his fortune in October 2024 when GIP used to be equipped to BlackRock for $12.5 billion in cash and shares.
Femi Otedola
Femi, with a rating price of $1.5 billion, Otedola ranks twelfth. He first and major made his wealth in commodities sooner than transferring focal level to the energy sector because the chairman and majority proprietor of Geregu Vitality.
Tope Awotona
Tolu, Founding father of the scheduling application startup Calendly, valued at $3 billion in 2021, Awotona has a rating price of $1.4 billion, placing him fourteenth on the list.
