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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · 2026-05-13 · 50 min · 7,981 words

Aliko Dangote: Building Africa's industrial future from the ground up

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Hi everybody, I'm Nikola Tangan, the CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, and today I have a real pleasure sitting down with Aliko Dangote. Aliko is the founder and the CEO of the Dangote Group, Africa's largest industrial conglomerate. Nearly 50 years ago, he started with a small trading firm in Nigeria, and today his empire stretches across the continent. He has built what many said was impossible, a large-scale African industry from scratch. Warm welcome.

Thank you very much, Dukla. It's a pleasure. It's great to be here. How did it all start? Well, I started as a trading company in 1978.

And what kind of things did you trade? Uh, cement. At that time, I started first with cement. I was getting four or five trucks and trading them uh there in Lagos. And then later on I got into fish, into rice, into sugar.

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