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At the TieCon conference in California, serial entrepreneur Ashish J. Thakkar launched Mara Online, a family of online and mobile platforms that allow users to communicate, interact and collaborate with each other.
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South African billionaire luxury goods tycoon Johann Rupert has announced that he will take a 12-month sabbatical from running Richemont, the Swiss luxury goods giant he founded.
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At the World Economic Forum
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Uganda's richest man plans to spend $2 million to host a wedding ceremony for his daughter, Meera Ruparelia.
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The World Economic Forum On Africa in Cape Town has drawn the leaders of African business and politics, including a number of the richest people on the continent.
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Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, has secured $4.25 billion in loans from a consortium of banks to build an oil refinery in a move to help Nigeria reduce its dependence on oil imports.
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Ugandan-born tech entrepreneur Alpesh Patel quit his job as a sales executive at Motorola and went on to build a $30 million (revenues) pan-African mobile phone maker Mi-Fone.
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You've probably never heard about them before, but these are ten low-key, under-reported African entrepreneurs who each boast nine-figure fortunes.
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Africa's richest person celebrated turning 57 by making a couple of key announcements, one which will save lives and another which will create jobs.
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Kenyan businessman Paul Kinuthia recently sold the health and beauty divisions of his Interconsumer Products to L'Oreal for an undisclosed amount speculated to be in the millions. He still owns and runs the remaining businesses such as diapers.
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