ArticleThe Industrialist Who Bent a Nation: The Aliko Dangote Story
Long before Aliko Dangote became the richest man in Africa — long before the cement plants, the sugar mills, and the $19‑billion refinery that towers over Lagos like a city of steel — he was a boy in Kano selling sweets for pocket money. What he didn’t know then was that this small act of trading would foreshadow a life spent bending Nigeria’s economy to his will, building industries where none existed, and stepping into political storms powerful enough to shake the nation he helped build.
