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Aliko Dangote is the founder and chairman of Dangote Group, the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa. He is the richest man in Africa and the richest black person in the world.
Dangote was born into a wealthy Muslim family in Kano, Nigeria. He attended the University of Cairo in Egypt, where he studied business and economics. After graduating, he returned to Nigeria and started his own business, Dangote Group.
Dangote Group is a diversified conglomerate with interests in cement, sugar, flour, salt, pasta, beverages, real estate, oil and gas, telecommunications, and shipping. The company has operations in Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Togo, and Zambia.
Dangote is also a philanthropist and has donated millions of dollars to various causes, including education, healthcare, and poverty alleviation. He is also a major investor in the Nigerian economy and has invested in several sectors, including banking, telecommunications, and oil and gas.
As of 2021, Aliko Dangote's net worth is estimated to be $14.2 billion, making him the richest man in Africa and the richest black person in the world.
| Popular As |
Aliko Dangote |
| Occupation |
Industrialist and philanthropist |
| Age |
67 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Aries |
| Born |
10 April 1957 |
| Birthday |
10 April |
| Birthplace |
Kano, Nigeria |
| Nationality |
Nigeria |
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Aliko Dangote Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Aliko Dangote's Wife?
His wife is Zainab Dangote (m. 1977)
Mariya Muhammad Rufai
| Family |
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Not Available |
| Wife |
Zainab Dangote (m. 1977)
Mariya Muhammad Rufai |
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| Children |
4, including Halima |
Aliko Dangote Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Aliko Dangote worth at the age of 67 years old? Aliko Dangote’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Nigeria. We have estimated
Aliko Dangote's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 |
8.2 billion USD (2020) |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Pending |
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Under Review |
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He has an estimated net worth of US$13 billion (May 2020), as of May 2020, making him the 85th wealthiest person in the world and the richest person in Africa.
In March 2020, he donated 200 million Naira for towards curbing the spread of Coronavirus in Nigeria.
Aliko Dangote, as well as Femi Otedola, promised to give the Super Eagles of Nigeria US$75,000 for every goal scored in the Africans Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2019.
Dangote sits on the board of the Corporate Council on Africa, and is a member of the steering committee of the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Education First Initiative, the Clinton Global Initiative and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He was named Co-chair of the US-Africa Business Center, in September 2016, by the US Chamber of Commerce. In April 2017, he joined the Board of Directors of the Clinton Health Access Initiative. A dedicated philanthropist, Dangote made an initial endowment of $1.25 billion to the Aliko Dangote Foundation in March 2014, enabling it to scale up its work in health, education and economic empowerment. In addition, he is collaborating with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fight polio and other issues. He is also on the Board of One Campaign.
In 2014, the Nigerian government said Dangote had donated 150 million naira (US$750,000) to halt the spread of ebola.
Dangote reportedly added $9.2 billion to his personal wealth in 2013, according to the Bloomberg Index, making him the thirtieth-richest person in the world at the time, in addition to being the richest person in Africa.
In July 2012, Dangote approached the Nigerian Ports Authority to lease an abandoned piece of land at the Apapa Port, which was approved. He later built facilities for his flour company there. In the 1990s, he approached the Central Bank of Nigeria with the idea that it would be cheaper for the bank to allow his transport company to manage their fleet of staff buses, a proposal that was also approved.
Dangote has diversified into telecommunications and has started building 14,000 kilometres of fibre optic cables to supply the whole of Nigeria. As a result, Dangote was honoured in January 2009 as the leading provider of employment in the Nigerian construction industry.
Dangote had a prominent role in the funding of Olusegun Obasanjo's re-election bid in 2003, to which he gave over N200 million (US$2 Million). He contributed N50 million (US$500 Thousand) to the National Mosque under the aegis of "Friends of Obasanjo and Atiku". He contributed N200 million to the Presidential Library. These highly controversial gifts to members of the ruling PDP party have generated significant concerns despite highly publicized anti-corruption drives during Obasanjo's second term.
Dangote was educated at the Sheikh Ali Kumasi Madrasa, followed by Capital High School, Kano. In 1978, he graduated from the Government College, Birnin Kudu. He received a bachelor's degree in business studies and administration from Al-Azhar University, Cairo.
The Dangote Group was established as a small trading firm in 1977, the same year Dangote relocated to Lagos to expand the company. Today, it is a multi-trillion-naira conglomerate with many of its operations in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and Togo. Dangote has expanded to cover food processing, cement manufacturing, and freight. The Dangote Group also dominates the sugar market in Nigeria and is a major supplier to the country's soft drink companies, breweries, and confectioners. The Dangote Group has moved from being a trading company to be the largest industrial group in Nigeria including Dangote Sugar Refinery, Dangote Cement, and Dangote Flour.
Alhaji Aliko Dangote GCON (born 10 April 1957) is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist who is the founder and chairman of Dangote Group, an industrial conglomerate in Africa.
Aliko Dangote, an ethnic Hausa Muslim from Kano, Kano State, was born on 10 April 1957 into a wealthy Muslim family, the son of Mohammed Dangote and Mariya Sanusi Dantata, herself the daughter of Sanusi Dantata. He is the great-grandson of Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, the richest West African at the time of his death in 1955.
