How Nigerian tycoon Hassan Hammoud built Mamuda Group from leather into a $150 million conglomerate with 11,000 workers
Billionaires Africa | 26.05.2026 20:35
The Challawa Industrial Area of Kano is not the kind of place that generates headlines in Lagos or London. It is a dense, hard-working strip of factories on the southern edge of the ancient commercial city, home to textile mills, food processors, chemical plants and the kind of gritty, unglamorous industry that has always been the real engine of northern Nigeria's economy. Hassan Hammoud has been there for three decades, building quietly, expanding persistently, and staying largely invisible to the national business press that gravitates toward oil money and fintech unicorns in the south.
