Meet Issad Rebrab, the accountant who turned a small metals stake into a $5 billion empire
Billionaires Africa | 08.05.2026 20:19
Issad Rebrab was born in 1944 in the village of Taguemount-Azouz, a small settlement in the Kabylia region of Tizi Ouzou, in what was still colonial Algeria. His parents were active in the armed independence movement, fighting to end French rule. He grew up in a household where sacrifice was ordinary and deference to authority was not. Nothing about his early circumstances pointed toward a billion-dollar fortune.
