As the owner of 85% of the publicly-traded Dangote Cement through a holding company, the CEO of Dangote Group, which owns Dangote cement as well as other businesses under the Dangote umbrella, has a networth of $14.2 billion USD, it does not come as a shock that Aliko Dangote is the richest person in Africa for the 12th consecutive year in a row. As money seems impossible to come by with the current state of the world’s economy, this amount of money may seem almost unfathomable to many. How does one get to this state of financial stability?