Folorunsho Alakija
Alakija started her journey to wealth in London by pursuing secretarial studies and fashion design. Eventually, she made her way back to Nigeria and worked hard to become the second-richest woman in Africa. She founded her own tailoring company called Supreme Stitches and has served the likes of former first lady Maryam Babandiga. Before long, her investments in fashion allowed her to make the necessary connections to garner serious holdings in the oil industry as well. Now she has an overall net worth of about $2.5 billion.
Isabel Dos Santos
With a net worth of a staggering $3.7 billion, dos Santos is Africa’s richest woman as of 2014. She is the daughter of Angola’s longtime president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos. Years of smart investments have made her incredibly wealthy. She is a controlling shareholder in Nos SGPS and owns close to 20 percent of the Portuguese bank Banco BPI. She also owns a quarter of Unitel, the largest mobile phone carrier in Angola.
