The Richest Black People in the World, Ranked

Every year Forbes releases its annual ranking of the world’s billionaires and, like every year, I woke up, checked the list of the richest people in the world, and decided I’d better go to work. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos sits atop the list at number one, passing Bill Gates which makes sense because if you’re reading this on Internet Explorer or a Windows phone, you need to get your life together.

But instead of focusing on the three-comma colonizers on the list, we decided to look at the members of the Billionaire Blacks Club from around the Diaspora. We noticed a few things about the black billionaires:

• Only three were from America, while the rest made their money in the continent of Africa.
• There were as many Nigerians on the list (from a nation where Donald Trump believes people live in huts) as there were African Americans.
• No one from Wakanda made the list.

Source: The Richest Black People in the World, Ranked