“I came from a wealthy family… but I didn’t inherit my success.” — Aliko Dangote

“I came from a wealthy family… but I didn’t inherit my success.” — Aliko Dangote

The richest Black man on earth has revealed that despite being born into a powerful and wealthy lineage with his great-grandfather among the richest in West Africa in the 1940s and his grandfather from the famous Dentata family he built his own fortune from scratch.

According to Dangote, he did not inherit money from his father. Instead, he started small buying just one bag of cement, selling it, reinvesting the profit, and growing step by step