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From captivity to graduation: Two Chibok girls graduate from high school
How do you see life, do you see the sports in overcoming problems? Do you enjoy the athletics of jumping over hurdles? Would you not really get bored reading a book where it is all smiles from the first page to last page? Yeah…sometimes a story is more exciting when it begins with a teardrop or two and ends up in the widest ear-to-ear smiles. Tales of dogged defiance, baking a sumptuous loaf of success from the tiny crumbs of opportunities fate presented.
Such is the story of two Chibok girls, Debbie and Grace, who rode past the horrors of terrorism to become the first of the Chibok girls to get their high school diploma. Debbie graduated finishing her junior year (11th grade) and Grace completed her senior year (12th grade).
Debbie and Grace were two of the 57 girls who escaped from Boko Haram terrorists after the mass abduction of almost 275 schoolgirls in April 2014. They refused to be held back by the harrowing experience with their captors, showing an outstanding ambition to step out of their gloomy past into a bright future illuminated with education.
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“I am
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When it comes to African Billionaires, there are some usual suspects that make the list every year. Unfortunately, 2018 closed on a very bumpy note in the equities market and for many billionaires, this among other things resulted in some considerable loses in fortunes and some billionaires dropping off the list altogether.
The list dropped by 7 from 31 African billionaires to 24. A few billionaires still managed to grow their fortunes. Most Notably Nigeria’s Mike Adenugu who grew his fortunate the most with a 3.2 billion increase over his 2017 fortune.
Folorunsho Alakija remained Africa’s richest woman, Mohammed Dewji is still Africa’s youngest billionaire, and South Africa’s Elon Musk maintained the number one spot as the richest African on the list.
African Countries represented on the Billionaire list
By the end of 2018, South Africa had dropped 5 billionaires from the previous year. They closed with 6 billionaires, same as Egypt which dropped 2 billionaires from its 2017 list.
Nigeria maintained its 3 billionaires while last year’s newcomer from Zimbabwe still held his own. The other countries represented are Angola, Algeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Swaziland and Zimbabwe with their first Billionaire.
African Billionaire Age Distribution
There are 3 billionaires in their forties, 5 in their fifties, 7 in their sixties, 6 in their seventies and 3 in their eighties. Africa’s youngest Billionaire is still Mohammed Dewji from Tanzania at Age 42.
Methodology
The African Billionaires list is a snapshot of wealth taken on January 1, 2018. It is based on the Forbes Real-time billionaire wealth calculator. The calculation is derived from stock prices and exchange rates from around the world used to calculate net worths. Some fortunes change from day to day due to fluctuations in the market.
The list is based on individuals rather than multigenerational families who share large fortunes, though included is wealth belonging to a billionaire’s spouse and children if the current list member is the founder of the fortune. In that case, you’ll see “& family” on the list. Also included are married couples who built fortunes and businesses together.
It was an interesting year for African billionaires as some fortunes shrunk and others grew. So let’s look at who is left on the list and how they did in spite of the rough year-end.
| Picture | Africa Rank | Forbes Rank | Name | Net Worth | Age | Wealth Source | Hometown / Residence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1 | #35 | Elon Musk | $21.9 B | 47 | Tesla Motors | South Africa / United States |
 | 2 | #125 | Aliko Dangote | $10.5 B | 61 | Self Made, cement, sugar, flour | Nigeria |
 | 3 | #149 | Mike Adenuga | $8.7B | 65 | Telecom, Oil | Nigeria |
 | 4 | #180 | Nicky Oppenheimer | $7.6 B | 73 | Diamonds | South Africa |
 | 5 | #217 | Patrick Soon-Shiong | $6.6 B | 66 | Pharmaceuticals | South Africa / United States |
 | 6 | #240 | Nassef Sawiris | $6 B | 57 | Construction, Chemicals | Egypt |
 | 7 | #316 | Johann Rupert | $5.2 B | 68 | Luxury goods | South Africa |
 | 8 | #413 | Nathan Kirsh | $4.4 B | 86 | Retail, Real estate | Swaziland |
 | 9 | #519 | Issad Rebrab | $3.8 B | 75 | Food | Algeria |
 | 10 | #572 | Naguib Sawiris | $3.5 B | 64 | Telecom | Egypt |
 | 11 | #758 | Haim Saban | $2.8 B | 73 | TV network, Investments | Egypt / United States |
 | 12 | #955 | Strive Masiyiwa | $2.3 B | 58 | Telecom | Zimbabwe |
 | 13 | #958 | Koos Bekker | $2.3 B | 66 | Media, Investments | South Africa |
 | 14 | #964 | Mohamed Mansour | $2.3 B | 70 | Diversified | Egypt |
 | 15 | #1033 | Isabel dos Santos | $2.2 B | 45 | Investments | Angola |
 | 17 | #1107 | Aziz Akhannouch | $2 B | 58 | Petroleum, Diversified | Morocco |
 | 16 | #1110 | Patrice Motsepe | $2 B | 56 | Mining | South Africa |
 | 18 | #1317 | Othman Benjelloun | $1.7 B | 86 | Banking, Insurance | Morocco |
 | 19 | #1387 | Folorunsho Alakija | $1.6 B | 68 | Oil | Nigeria |
 | 20 | #1405 | Mohamed Al Fayed | $1.6 B | 89 | Retail, Investments | Egypt |
 | 21 | #1441 | Mohammed Dewji | $1.5 B | 43 | Diversified | Tanzania |
 | 22 | #1463 | Yasseen Mansour | $1.5 B | 57 | Diversified | Egypt |
 | 23 | #1783 | Mohammed Ibrahim | $1.2 B | 72 | Communications | Sudan / United Kingdom |
 | 24 | #1786 | Youssef Mansour | $1.2 B | 73 | Self Made, diversified | Egypt |
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