Aliko Dangote the Africa’s richest man said in a forum in Ivory coast on Saturday that he once withdraw $10 million in cash out from bank just to look at it and get it into his head that this is real money not just figure written on paper. ” when your young your first million is important but after, the numbers don’t mean much”. Dangote a manufacturing tycoon with a range of companies from cement to flour, told the Mo Ibrahim forum in Abidjan. He told the audience, One day, I cashed $10 million, put it in the boot of my car when i got home i put it in my room . I look at them and thought now i believed i have money and took it back the next day. In the invent Dangote said that the two most promising sectors for Africa’s future were agriculture and new technologies and advices young African entrepreneurs not to get carried away by the first flush of success. sometimes in Africa we spend our projected incomes. there are up and down in business he warned. He said he regretted the customs and administrative problems that hamper business development throughout the continent. He gave example how difficulties his cement group faces in exporting to Benin from Nigeria factories 40 kilometres{25 miles}from the border.Benin imported more expensive cement from China instead Dangote said.
