How tycoon William Tewiah built a $420 million energy empire in Ghana with no oil experience and one contract
Billionaires Africa | 18.05.2026 23:21
William Tewiah is not the kind of man who shows up in a sector with connections and capital and a family name that opens doors. He showed up with none of those things. No background in oil and gas. No network in Ghana's downstream petroleum industry. No university degree. What he had was 20 years of financial discipline earned in London's banking world, a clear-eyed question about why Ghanaian companies were not serving Ghana's own mining sector, and enough stubbornness to drive 300 kilometers each way to prove that they could.
