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Celebrity Buzz He started trading with a loan from his uncle. Aliko Dangote became Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, born in Kano in 1957, began trading commodities with a loan from his uncle in the late 1970s. He built the Dangote Group into Africa's largest cement producer and a giant in sugar and salt, then built a huge oil refinery in Lagos. He has long ranked as Africa's richest person.