Nigerian tycoon John Alamu is 34 and already runs the country's largest cocoa processor
Billionaires Africa | 02.09.2026 17:51
John Alamu built his business on a calculation. Export a tonne of raw cocoa beans from Nigeria and you earn about $8,000. Turn the same beans into cocoa butter and you earn roughly six times that. Turn them into chocolate and the value rises up to thirty times.
