Aliko Dangote is the chairman and CEO of the Dangote Group, which has moved from being a trading company to becoming the largest industrial group in Nigeria including Dangote Sugar Refinery, Dangote Cement, and Dangote Flour. In 2014, the Nigerian government said Dangote had donated 150 million naira (US$750,000) to halt the spread of Ebola. In March 2020, he donated 200 million naira (US$500,000) towards the fight against the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria.

Johann Rupert is the founder and CEO of the Rand Merchant Bank of South Africa. He was council member of The South Africa Foundation and trustee of the Southern African Nature Foundation, The Institute of Directors in Southern Africa, Business South Africa and Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns and Managing Trustee and member of the investment committee, Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. He served on the Daimler Chrysler International Advisory Board.

Nicky Oppenheimer was the chairman of De Beers diamond mining company and of its subsidiary, the Diamond Trading Company, and former deputy chairman of Anglo American, a mining company. He and his son Jonathan Oppenheimer established the Brenthurst Foundation in 2005 as a way to help strengthen Africa's economic performance and sustainable development. 

Nassef Sawiris is the CEO of Orascom Construction Industries, an engineering and construction contractor based in Cairo, Egypt. He was on the Board of Directors of the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchanges from 2004 to 2007, and was also a Board Director at the Dubai International Financial Exchange DIFX from July 200] to June 2010.

Mike Adenuga founded Globacom Limited, a Nigerian multinational telecommunications company. He was named African Entrepreneur of The Year at the first African Telecoms Awards (ATA) in August 2007 and cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2019. 

Mohamed Mansour ran his family business the Mansour Group, which controls nine of Egypt's top Fortune 500 companies. He is also interested in Metro, the largest Egyptian supermarket chain, and McDonald's franchises in Egypt. 

Nathan Kirsh established the Kirsh Foundation, an international charitable organization. Its projects include a microfinance venture in collaboration with Swazi chiefs to provide "affordable loans and financial literacy training to Swazi women." As of 2010, Kirsh's seed fund, Inhlanyelo, had financed "5500 successful small businesses." By 2015, around 20,000 people were employed by small-scale businesses started by the fund.

Issad Rebrab was the CEO of the Cevital industrial group, the largest private company in Algeria, active in steel, food, agribusiness and electronics. He also owns the French-Algerian daily paper, Liberte, and the El Khabar Media Group.

Naguid Sawiris is an Egyptian billionaire and former CEO of Orascom Telecom Media & Technology. Sawiris is also the chairman of Wind Telecom, formerly Weather Investments S.p.A, a telecommunications holding company.

Youssef Mansour is chairman of family-owned conglomerate Mansour Group. Mansour Group is the exclusive distributor of GM vehicles and Caterpillar equipment in Egypt and several other countries. He oversees the consumer goods division, which includes supermarket chain Metro and he has sole distribution rights for L'Oreal in Egypt.

Othman Benjelloun is CEO of BMCE Bank of Africa, which has a presence in more than 20 African countries. He inaugurated in 2014, a $500 million plan to build the 55-story Mohammed VI Tower in Rabat, which will be one of the tallest buildings in Africa.

Yasseen Mansour is a shareholder in family-owned conglomerate Mansour Group. He is chairman of Palm Hills Developments, one of Egypt's biggest real estate developers. 

Patrice Motsepe, the founder and chairman of African Rainbow Minerals, became a billionaire in 2008 - the first black African on the Forbes list. In 2016, he launched a private equity firm, African Rainbow Capital, focused on investing in Africa.In March 2021, Motsepe was elected president of the Confederation of African Football, the sport's governing body on the continent. In 1994, he became the first black partner at law firm Bowman Gilfillan in Johannesburg, and then started a mining services contracting business.

Stephen Saad founded South Africa's largest pharmaceuticals maker, Aspen Pharmacare, in 1997. In 2016, Saad won the Entrepreneur of the Year award at the All Africa Business Leaders Awards gala.

Mohamed Al Fayed was born in Alexandria, Egypt and has set up businesses around the world. Fayed set up the Al Fayed Charitable Foundation in 1987 aiming to help children with life-limiting conditions and children living in poverty. The charity works mainly with charities and hospices for disabled and neglected children in the UK, Thailand, and Mongolia.

Folorunsho Alakija has a foundation called the Rose of Sharon Foundation that helps widows and orphans through scholarships and business grants. Alakija has donated a skills acquisition center to Yaba College of Technology, a higher educational institution located in Lagos. As of 2014, she is listed as the 96th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. In May 2015, two Nigerian women, Finance Minister Ngozi okonjo-Iweala and Alakija were listed among the world's 100 most powerful women according to Forbes. 

Onsi Sawiris, the patriarch of Egypt's wealthiest family, died in June 2021. Onsi Sawiris founded Orascom Construction in 1950. Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised it 10 years later.

Aziz Akhannouch was appointed prime minister of Morocco in September 2021. Aziz Akhannouch is the majority owner of Akwa Group,which has interests in petroleum, gas,  and chemicals. It is a multibillion-dollar conglomerate founded by his father and a partner, Ahmed Wakrim, in 1932.