The quiet Benin-born engineer who built a $900 million African oil empire nobody saw coming
Billionaires Africa | 12.05.2026 22:03
Samuel Dossou-Aworet spent 13 years directing Gabon's oil sector on behalf of a government that was not his own. He was born in Porto-Novo, Benin in 1944. Gabon eventually gave him honorary citizenship. He had earned it.
