Aliko Dangote
Manufacturing · Nigeria
Net worth
$10.0B
Lifetime giving
$1.3B
Share of wealth given
11.1%
Impact Score
66
Impact rank
#25
Hypothetical wealth
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Aliko Dangote is a Nigerian billionaire businessman and industrialist who founded and leads the Dangote Group, a major African conglomerate with businesses spanning cement, sugar, salt, fertilizer, petrochemicals, and oil refining. He is widely described as Africa’s richest person and is known for building the Dangote Refinery, one of the continent’s largest industrial projects.