These Are The Richest Women In Africa

- For most of modern history, the people who sat at the top of Africa's most powerful industries - oil, mining, cocoa, banking - were men. Almost always men. Almost always, men from somewhere else. That story is changing. Across 54 countries and 1.4 billion people, a generation of women has risen - through oil blocks won in legal battles against international corporations, through cocoa processing facilities that compete with European multinationals, through pharmaceutical companies built from scratch in countries where everyone assumed the medicines would always be imported - to become some of the most powerful wealth holders in the fastest-growing economic region on earth. This is their complete story. All figures sourced from Forbes, Billionaires. Africa, and verified financial reporting. This is Legacy Vault - where the money is real, and the research goes deep. WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER The full countdown of Africa's richest women across the continent - including the Nigerian fashion designer who won a legal battle against Chevron and walked away with a stake in one of the country's largest deepwater oil fields, the Ghanaian entrepreneur who built the only African-owned large-scale cocoa processing facility and now competes directly with European multinationals, the South African woman who entered the mining industry during apartheid when it was illegal for her to be there - and changed the law, the East African matriarch who presides over 500,000 acres of land, a 60 percent share of Kenya's dairy market, and a banking empire that spans the continent, and the most contested and consequential billion-dollar fortune in African history. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Introduction 01:28 - Dr. Stella Okoli 02:36 - Bola Shagaya 05:10 - Patricia Poku-Diaby 07:30 - Bridgette Radebe 09:37 - Ngina Kenyatta 12:30 - Folorunso Alakija 15:44 - Isabel dos Santos SUBSCRIBE Legacy Vault is your home for the real, deeply researched stories behind generational wealth - every figure verified, every story told in full. Subscribe here:    / @dalegacyvault   WATCH NEXT -    • Why New Jersey Became The Capital of India...