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| Folorunsho Alakija- Richest Black woman |
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| Oprah Winfrey |
Africa boasts fifty five billionaires - way more than antecedently thought - and they are value a staggering $143.88 billion in total, in step with pan-African magazine Ventures Africa.
Starting her career as a secretary in an exceedingly bank within the middle Seventies, Alakija, 62, then studied fashion in London and came to Nigeria to begin a label, Supreme Stitches. However her biggest break came in oil.
In 1993, her company, Famfa Oil, was awarded AN oil prospecting license, that later became OML 127, one in every of the country's most prolific oil blocks, by then-president Abraham Babangida.
The company owned a sixty per cent stake within the block till 2000 once the Nigerian government
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