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When Aliko Dangote steps onto the stage at the Nigerian Exchange next September, he won’t just be listing a company. He’ll be ringing the opening bell on Africa’s most ambitious industrial dream yet. The Dangote Refinery – the world’s largest single-train facility with a staggering 650,000 barrels-per-day capacity – is heading for what analysts are […]
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There is something almost cinematic about Nigeria’s current energy moment. The country that once queued for imported petrol — a humiliation that played out at filling stations for decades — is now the refinery that keeps European planes in the air. The irony is as rich as the crude oil beneath the Niger Delta. And […]
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In Kano, in northern Nigeria, in 1957, a boy was born into a family whose patriarch had once been the richest man in all of West Africa. The weight of that inheritance — not money, but expectation — would shape everything. Aliko Dangote started with a $500,000 loan from his uncle, a trading operation in […]
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