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Top 20 Richest Black Billionaires in the World (2026)

Here is the latest ranking from Forbes. These are the 27 Black billionaires on the 2026 list, but we’re showing only the top 20. All net worths are as of March 1, 2026. Together, the full 27 Black billionaires are worth $121 billion.

1. Aliko Dangote(Nigeria) – **$28.5 billion** 

   The richest Black person on earth. He built the Dangote Group – Africa’s biggest cement and sugar empire.

2. **Alexander Karp** (USA) – **$13.4 billion** 

   Co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, a huge software and data company used by governments and big business. His mother is African-American.

3. **David Steward** (USA) – **$12.4 billion** 

   Founder of World Wide Technology, one of the largest Black-owned IT companies in America.

4. **Abdulsamad Rabiu** (Nigeria) – **$11.2 billion** 
   Chairman of BUA Group – cement, sugar, food, and infrastructure. Nigeria’s second-richest man.

5. **Robert F. Smith** (USA) – **$10 billion** 
   Founder of Vista Equity Partners, a massive private equity firm that buys tech companies.

6. **Mike Adenuga** (Nigeria) – **$6.5 billion** 
   Owner of Globacom (Glo telecom) and Conoil. One of Africa’s biggest telecom and oil bosses.

7. **Michael Jordan** (USA) – **$4.3 billion** 
   Basketball legend. Made most of his money from Nike’s Jordan Brand and owning part of the Charlotte Hornets.

8. **Patrice Motsepe** (South Africa) – **$4.3 billion** 
   Mining magnate. Founded African Rainbow Minerals.

9. **Oprah Winfrey** (USA) – **$3.2 billion** 
   Queen of TV and media. Built Harpo Productions and her own network.

10. **Jay-Z** (USA) – **$2.8 billion** 
    Rapper, businessman, and investor. Owns Roc Nation, champagne brands, and music rights.

11. **Adebayo Ogunlesi** (USA/Nigeria) – **$2.5 billion** 
    Private equity boss at Global Infrastructure Partners.

12. **David Grain** (USA) – **$2.3 billion** 
    Newcomer. Founder of Grain Management, a private equity firm.

13. **Strive Masiyiwa** (Zimbabwe) – **$2.1 billion** 
    Telecom giant behind Econet Wireless. Big philanthropist too.

14. **Magic Johnson** (USA) – **$1.6 billion** 
    Basketball star turned investor in Starbucks, real estate, and sports.

15. **Tiger Woods** (USA) – **$1.5 billion** 
    Golf legend. Earned it through Nike deals, endorsements, and golf course business.

16. **Herriot Tabuteau** (USA/Haiti) – **$1.5 billion** 
    Founder of Axsome Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company.

17. **Tope Awotona** (USA/Nigeria) – **$1.4 billion** 
    Founder of Calendly, the popular scheduling software.

18. **LeBron James** (USA) – **$1.4 billion** 
    NBA superstar. Made billions from Nike, Blaze Pizza, and his own media company.

19. **Tyler Perry** (USA) – **$1.4 billion** 
    Movie and TV mogul. Owns Tyler Perry Studios.

20. **Mo Ibrahim** (UK/Sudan) – **$1.3 billion** 
    Sold his telecom company Celtel and now runs a big foundation.

These numbers change every day with the stock market, but this is the official Forbes snapshot from early 2026. Nigerians dominate the top spots – Dangote, Rabiu, Adenuga, and more show the power coming out of Africa. The list also has big names from entertainment and sports because they turned fame into real business empires.

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#OprahWinfrey hits the #campaigntrail for #VicePresident #KamalaHarris with #livestream #event.

The #livestream #event will be #hosted by #Oprah and will include #participation from dozens of #grassroots #groups, including #WinWithBlackWomen, #WhiteDudesforHarris, and others.

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The #billionaire #media #icon will join the #Democratic #presidentialcandidate in a live-streamed #townhall in #Michigan on Thursday, an effort to #getoutthevote as some #states begin distributing #absentee and #EarlyVoting #ballots this month and to potentially sway #undecidedvoters with under 50 days until #ElectionDay.

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#BlackAmerica #Reacts To #Oprah's #Fiery, #Surprise #DNC #Speech.

#TheRoot was #present for when the #media #mogul made an appearance at the #Chicago Convention.

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I have my own opinions about how to write euphoniously in English, but if I know or can readily find out that somebody has specified their pronouns, I use those. Fuck my opinions.

Likewise, I share the common reluctance to call a woman who is a public figure by her first name, as that can be or seem diminishing. However, if she is actively BRANDING herself under her first name, who am I to get all stuffy and stilted and insist on the old proprieties?

#Madonna #Oprah #Mariah #Liza #Kamala

Every year, some of the richest and most powerful leaders in business, media and politics touch down in Sun Valley, Idaho,
for a private confab hosted by New York investment bank Allen & Company.

The vibe is trail-dad chic — think puffy Patagonia vests and Apple watches and stealth-wealth cashmere pullovers. Imagine the resort from Dirty Dancing but replace all the beautiful young dancers with mostly older White men carrying Wall Street Journals under their arms and grumbling about regulatory overreach.

The summit’s agenda and lecture topics are kept secret, and reporters who attend generally have to stay off the record so that the one-percenters can mingle and speak freely as they wander the mountain resort,
gossiping about industry and, occasionally, forging historic multibillion-dollar deals.

Sun Valley is widely believed to be the place where Jeff #Bezos decided to buy The Washington Post, and the site of the meet-cute between Comcast and NBC Universal.
(Warren #Buffett, who is notably absent from this year’s guest list, once referred to Sun Valley dealmaking as ABWA, or “acquisitions by walking around.”)

This year’s parade of private jets is expected to touch down Tuesday, as the Idaho Mountain Express reported last month, bringing together dozens of power brokers
— including AI kingpin Sam #Altman; Disney CEO Bob #Iger and a coterie of his potential successors; plus all of the usual suspects like Apple’s Tim #Cook, Meta’s Mark #Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar #Pichai, media moguls Rupert #Murdoch and #Oprah Winfrey and many others, including David #Zaslav, the CEO of CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, according to Bloomberg and Variety.
(A spokesperson for Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed Zaslav would attend.)

There are also some notably absent names from the guest list this year.

There’s Buffett, who is normally a fixture at the event but who is nearly 94 and, perhaps, happy to let his spryer successor, 62-year-old Greg #Abel, handle the high-altitude trekking and chit-chattery. Less likely but still half-seriously rumored is that Buffett is avoiding the shindig after the press last year picked up on his wife, Astrid, complaining about having to pay $4 for a cup of coffee.

Also absent this year is Elon #Musk, who might seem like a shoo-in until you imagine him winding up on a rafting trip with a bunch of CEOs whom he publicly urged,
less than a year ago, to go f— themselves.

While we expect plenty of chatter about artificial intelligence, the Succession-level drama about Iger’s succession plan, and the head-spinning negotiations that led to the Paramount-Skydance merger, there is one giant elephant — or donkey — in the room this year.

Questions about President Joe #Biden’s ability to campaign have wealthy donors and Democratic officials in a tizzy.
And it would be hard to imagine that a gaggle of elite media moguls would sit around the fire with their s’mores and bourbon and not speculate about potential replacements on the 2024 ballot.

That could make the week particularly important for three governors on the guest list this year: Gretchen #Whitmer, Josh #Shapiro and Wes #Moore, all of whom have been floated as potential Biden replacements, even as the president forcefully denies that he’s contemplating dropping out.

The political intrigue is, well, intriguing. But it’s also a timely reminder to zoom out and consider just how powerful the US has let its billionaire class become, and how events like Sun Valley amplify the inequities in America that are so systemic we hardly bat an eye at them.

As the writer Hamilton Nolan wrote in 2021, Sun Valley is a place where “the billionaires are feted by the mere millionaires; the millionaires drum up enough deals to allow them to buy their third and fourth homes …

This is the wondrous model of American capitalism in action
— a tiny handful of wealthy people eat cake, and an entire nation gathers downstream, hoping to snatch up a few falling crumbs.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/09/business/sun-valley-summer-camp-billionaires-nightcap/index.html

March 5, 1988. Oprah Winfrey of the syndicated The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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#Oprah #unveiled her #portrait in the #Smithsonian #NationalPortraitGallery. #OprahWinfrey hadn't seen it in advance of the #ceremony in #WashingtonDC on Wednesday. Painted by #Chicago #artist #ShawnMichaelWarren it's a beautiful #painting of an #inspiring #American #icon.
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Matt Baume's new video looks at the 1997 coming-out episode of ELLEN, which turned Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom into the first U.S. TV series with an out-and-proud gay main starring character. Matt examines the episode itself and the backstage story and controversy behind it.

https://youtu.be/3vXXUS5tpMo

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