For a long time Bill Gates was considered the richest man in the world. Most recently, Jeff Bezos, the tycoon who owns Amazon held this spot with an estimated fortune of $86 billion! But what of ...

Africa's 'richest king' worth a whopping £1.7bn - almost 3 times more than Charles III The House of Shorafa Alawi claims to be descended from the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and is the world's ...

The truth is, many African countries were wealthy before colonization. By some estimates, African king Mansa Musa was the richest person in history .

Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, is worth around £11 billion making his fortune 18 times larger than King Charles' estimated net worth of £611 million.

BEIT, DIAMOND KING, EMPIRE MAKER, IS DEAD; Great South African Financier Was Partner of Rhodes. FORMED THE DIAMOND TRUST One of the World's Richest Men, He Never Married and Lived a Retired Life ...

Thousands of people gathered at the Zulu royal palace in South Africa to witness the crowning of a new king in the country's richest and most influential traditional monarchy. Misuzulu Zulu ...

Smith, during the fireside chat Wednesday, said he benefited from Dr. King’s work and is part of the first generation of African Americans “to have all my rights.” ...

The four richest Africans are wealthier than about half of the continent's 750 million people, anti-poverty charity Oxfam ...

Meanwhile, Forbes ranked the king in 2015 among Africa's richest men, with personal wealth valued at more than $5 billion. Since he took the throne, the royal holding company Almada has expanded ...

The pyramids of Egypt? Western nations often think of the entire African continent as poor, thanks, in large part, to the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and European colonialism. The truth ...