Folorunsho Alakija

Folorunsho Alakija is a Nigerian businesswoman who is the second richest African woman after Isabel Dos Santos and also the third richest woman of African descent in the world. She is a business tycoon involved in the fashion, oil and printing industries. She is the group managing director of The Rose of Sharon Group which consists of The Rose of Sharon Prints amp Promotions Limited and Digital Reality Prints Limited and the executive vicechairman of Famfa Oil Limited. Alakija is ranked by Forbes as the richest woman in Nigeria with an estimated net worth of 2.1 billion As of 2015, she is listed as the second most powerful woman in Africa after Ngozi OkonjoIweala and the 87th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.

Folorunsho was born in 1951 to the family of Chief L. A. Ogbara in Ikorodu, Lagos State. At age seven, she travelled to the United Kingdom to begin a fouryear primary education at Dinorben School for Girls in Hafodunos Hall in Llangernyw, Wales. After returning to Nigeria, she attended Muslim High School Sagamu Ogun State, Nigeria. Afterwards, she returned abroad for her secretarial studies at Pitmans Central College, London. She also studied fashion design at the American College, London and the Central School of Fashion.

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