1.3 – Aliko Dangote

“I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.”  – Aliko Dangote Aliko Dangote at the age of 21 borrowed then-N500,000 from his uncle to import and sell agricultural commodities in Nigeria [3]. He had…