8 facts you didn’t know about Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote – See how he survived plane crash 3 times (With Pics)

He Started His Business on a Loan:

The Dangote group might be a multinational industrial conglomerate and unarguably one of the biggest in Africa today but one of the things most people don’t know is that Aliko Dangote the business with a loan of five hundred thousand naira (N500,000). As a twenty-one year old fresh graduate, he didn’t have funds to start up a business so hed took a loan from his Uncle Sanusi Abdulkadir Dantata. It was these funds he used to launch his business into what we know today as Dangote Group which has over twenty-one thousand employees.