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According to the 2021 Forbes ranking of the world's billionaires, Nigerian business magnate Aliko Dangote had a net worth of $11.5 billion and was the world's richest black man. Other billionaires of African descent on the 2021 Forbes list included Nigerian businessman Mike Adenuga with $6.1 billion, American investor Robert Smith with $6 ...
He became the first black American billionaire in 2001. [9] [1] [10] Johnson's companies have counted among the most prominent black American businesses in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
David Lloyd Steward (born July 2, 1951) is an American billionaire businessman. He is chairman and founder of World Wide Technology, [4] one of the largest African-American-owned businesses in America. [5] According to Forbes, in 2019 Steward was one of 13 black billionaires worldwide. [6] [7] He was ranked 239th on the Forbes 400 list of ...
Perhaps to her chagrin, Johnson is best known as the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), the media mecca that earned her the title of the first Black woman billionaire in the U.S ...
2, including Christina Lewis. Reginald F. Lewis (December 7, 1942 – January 19, 1993), was an American businessman. He was one of the richest Black American men in the 1980s, and the first African-American to build a billion-dollar company: TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc. [1] In 1993, Forbes listed Lewis among the 400 richest ...
Haniyah Philogene. December 1, 2023 at 5:11 PM. Keith Lee, Sha’Carri Richardson, Latto and Angel Reese are among the Black stars featured on this year’s “30 Under 30” list. Black ...
In a 2018 cover story, Forbes said that Smith the wealthiest African-American, passing Oprah Winfrey. As of 2021, Smith was one of 15 Black billionaires in the world. In November 2023, Forbes said his net worth was $9.2 billion, and that he was the 78th-richest person in the United States, and the 235th-richest person in the world.
The Richest Africans is an annual ranking of the richest African people, compiled and published by the American business magazine Forbes. The list has been published since 2015. Dangote Group founder Aliko Dangote has topped the 2018 list. In 2018, there was a record of 23 African billionaires on the list.