Africa's Richest Woman - Folorunsho Alakija

The happily married 61 year old mother of four boys, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija who was a designer back in the day, and today, Africa’s richest woman went into the oil business some years back and now has an oil bloc that pulls in N157 million a day.

According to Forbes Magazine-the November 2012 edition, she is the richest woman in Africa with a net worth of $600million, which is about N94 billion.