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I would like to start by asking you to excuse my partner for his absence.
Normally, we would introduce you to a business model whose name is well known in the USA. It's a woman
named Sophia Amoruso, a woman who had a very complicated youth but who was able to develop a
commercial fibre through the sale of vintage clothes, which made her one of the richest women in the
United States.

Unfortunately, for personal reasons, as most of you know, lou had to move back to France to his family. It
is true that it is not easy for everyone to bear the distance, especially if personal complications are added
to it. So think of her, for those who have her telephone contact. As a result, I had to cancel the work I had
started and opt for another strategy by introducing a man in whom I recognise some of my intrinsic values
and qualities.

On this day, I am going to introduce you to an African businessman called ALIKO DANGOTE and it is
with great pleasure that I will tell you about this man who is a great and important businessman in Africa.

Who is ALIKO DANGOTE?

ALIKO DANGOTE is a humble and unassuming businessman with an unbridled taste for business. In FORBS
magazine he is listed as one of the world's 100 billionaires and is described as the richest man in Africa with
a net worth of no less than $14,100,000,000.

Aliko Dangote was born in 1957 in Kano into a middle-class Nigerian family. His father was a
wealthy peanut trader and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy businessman who traded with
Europeans during the colonial era. When his father died, he was taken in by his grandfather who taught
him the tricks of the trade.

In an interview, he says that from an early age he made a profit from his classmates by selling them
sweets. He attended Al Alzhar University in Egypt, where he learned business and administrative skills. In
1977, he decided to start his own business and borrowed $3,000 or 1,350,000 CFA francs from his uncle.
His business consisted of importing large quantities of food, which he sold to local consumers for retail
sale.

A successful business, he repays all his loans within three months. During the 1980s, he expanded his
business activities and decided in 1997 to design his own production plants by building a sugar refinery and
a packaging plant; this allowed him to make an exponential leap in business.