FORBES: Mike Adenuga and Aliko Dangote make The African Billionaires 2012

This year, a record 1,226 billionaires made it to FORBES’ annual ranking of the World’s richest people.

African billionaires occupied a little over 1% of the positions on the list and the two Nigerians that made it were Aliko Dangote and Mike Adenuga.

View full list of the 16 Africans who made it.... after cut

Aliko Dangote, $11.2 billionNigeria, Sugar, Cement, Flour
Nicky Oppenheimer & family, $6.8 billion
South Africa, Diamonds

Nassef Sawiris, $5.1 billion
Egypt, Construction

Johann Rupert & family, $5.1 billion
South Africa, Luxury Goods

Mike Adenuga, $4.3 billion
Nigeria, telecom, banking, oil

Naguib Sawiris, $3.1 billion
Egypt, Telecom

Christoffel Wiese, $3.1 billion
South Africa, Retailing

Onsi Sawiris, $2.9 billion

Egypt, construction, telecom

Miloud Chaabi, $2.9 billion

Morocco, Real estate

Patrice Motsepe, $2.7 billion

South Africa, Mining

Othman Benjelloun, $2.3 billion

Morocco, banking, insurance

Mohamed Mansour, $1.7 billion
Egypt, Diversified

Anas Sefrioui, $1.6 billion
Morocco, Real estate

Yasseen Mansour, $1.6 billion
Egypt, Diversified

Youssef Mansour, $1.5 billion
Egypt, Diversified

Mohamed Al Fayed, $1.3 billion
Egypt, retailing

The United States of America dominated the list with 425 billionaires among the 58 countries that made the list.