700 million dollar estates 35 million dollar villas and 11 million dollar
mansions welcome to africa's billionaires row full run mansion in nigeria is a 700 million
dream come true move over catherine hepburn there's a new african queen in town
and she's bawling harder than lebron the oil tycoon outsourced the building of one of the most
gorgeous homes in sub-saharan africa and fourth most expensive residential home on earth to the
german construction company julius berger and her love affair with german engineering doesn't
stop there she and her fam collect mercedes benzes like pokemons she and her hubby lawyer roll around
in s-classes while their four boys adorn their driveway in four g-wagons every christmas back
to the house the ikoyi mansion is bulletproof if movies have taught us anything it's that you
cannot become an oil tycoon like voloruncio without making a few enemies along the way
its light wells and floor-to-ceiling windows on three levels make the semi-circular concept home
heavenly bright and that texaco deal affords her a gorgeous pool and gazebo area she bankrolled one
of the most expensive weddings in world history that of her son filarian al-aqija and iranian
model nazanin jafarian gaisarifar good old robert kardashian's ex in an 8.3 million dollar wedding
at blenheim palace in england so yeah her family does do it real big flo as her friends caller was
named the 87th most powerful woman in the world by forbes back in 2014. an estimated
net worth of 1.8 billion as of the end of 2021 makes her the second richest woman in africa
after black panther's mother raimanda just kidding i mean after ngozi okonjo iwa with great power
comes great responsibility and in flow's case prime real estate in camps bay south africa sits
the country's most expensive house if you can get approved for a 35 million mortgage because
this place is actually for sale now you'll get eight bedrooms 13 bathrooms and 14 parking spots
hey if you live in manhattan a parking spot will run you 350 000 so in new york city numbers you're
getting 4.9 million dollars worth of parking to qualify as a mansion your property needs to have
10 000 square feet of living space at casablanca you're getting three mansions for the price of
well three as it's got 33 368 square feet of living space watch casablanca in your private
home theater in the casablanca villa complete with red velvet curtains and 16 velvet seats
after ingrid bergman's plane flies off the runway hit up your private pool and your own private gym
then unwind after a nice hard day of living larger than life in the master bathroom's marble hot tub
through the open double doors stair off beyond victoria drive across the south atlantic ocean
and imagine what your neighbors are doing across the pond in uruguay and brazil the most impressive
part of this villa the curb appeal pulling up to 30 victoria drive looks like uncle phil's bel-air
mansion on steroids casablanca villa's front grill makes you feel this is where god would live you
knock and hope the grand white door shall open to you the second most expensive house in nigeria and
third overall is mike adanugas globacom's mobile phone network owners lego city home is rumored to
be worth 22.2 million duckets although many have raised doubts about that number when you look at
it from the outside though the gates to the estate look like barriers to an entire gated community
located in the super exclusive gated community banana island nigeria's beverly hills mike's
neighborhood takes a code to enter that changes daily banana island is the complete opposite of
makoko a nigerian slum not 10 miles away and the isle itself is shaped like you guessed it
a banana overlooking the lagos lagoon the estate holds eight duplexes one of which holds his huge
home office not too bad working from home during covet for mike huh it's got two watch towers like
a prison or a military structure wood a church and a hall that seats 200. he's got a shelter
for his private jets too mike addanuga's home neighbor's nigerian recording starred davido's
1.5 million dollar home it is rumored that his neighbors don't like him or his property though
maybe because he's so rich and famous prices for homes in that area right now or through the roof
making property taxes unbearable or maybe he just doesn't wave back when they wave to him who knows
the richest man on the continent has the fourth most expensive house at 13.8 million aliko dangote
is a juggernaut in the concrete business with an estimated net worth of 12.7 billion in 2021. one
of bill gates's business associates elico's home is located in abuja nigeria's capital the outside
of the all-white exterior is quite nautical looking as it looks like the top of a yacht
the rooms on the inside are reminiscent of old hollywood the interior designers probably watched
too many old james bond movies in the garage the dangote group's president keeps an impressive
list of cars including a mercedes-benz cl65 amg a bentley milsan a maybach 57s night luxury and
a bugatti veyron yup aliko really does wake up to a new bugatti back to south africa aka the real
wakanda to a 13 million house in fresney cape town from the slopes of lionhead you look over to the
atlantic ocean the deck area's got swing hammocks and a treehouse for the kids and the kid in you
there are two pools one big and one little and a grotto for a little privacy it's got a meditative
koi pond that mr miyagi would find incredibly peaceful the elevator will take you where you need
to go in the three levels of this seven bedroom home the luxurious formal lounge with fireplace
is the place to host vips if you are like ernest hemingway and never knew of a morning in africa
when you woke up unhappy this master bedroom will only extend that smile it has a wraparound balcony
from which you can see the atlantic seaboard your guests can sleep in a separate two-bedroom flatlet
what an american might call a pool house not too bad you've got a gym domestic quarters and
three interior garages plus room to park another seven vehicles for guests it even has security
guard quarters a greenhouse a bar and a chef's kitchen suitable for prepping meals for a king
invite gordon ramsay over and see if he'll come to this 13 290 square foot mansion it
is currently for sale after all south africa's richest man patrice matsepe holds the deed to an
8 billion baronial mansion that sits on 129 166 square feet of land in cape town the first african
man to make forbes billionaires list lives next door to novelist wilbur smith patrice has space
to dine wilbur plus 23 others in the dining room the 2.3 billion man gets his smoke on in the cigar
lounge coughs it out on the floodlit tennis court listens to rodriguez in the music room i'm sure
and knocks on the real estate manager's on-site residence when he needs a light bulb changed
looking off his bishop's court balcony into the miles and miles of indescribable african skyline
might make you a slave of africa his 10 bay garage houses a bentley continental gt a benz s65 amg an
07 bmw 750il and a 760li amongst many others yep patrice is really living it up in the motherland
sir okiyobo's 4.6 billion naira mansion or 11.2 million in usd's looks like a hybrid of
a megachurch a luxury resort and the white house a night of big time historical methodist john wesley
sir clement oluwatumininu okiyogo left medicine to pursue a life in the construction business as a
gift to himself for all his hard work and success he bought one of the most beautifully expensive
homes in all of africa in parkview estate in lagos nigeria you can watch 88's coming to america and
laugh at how ridiculous americans think africans are in the residence's private movie theater the
place where you eat dinner will make any meal a happy meal with its 22-seat dinner table that sits
under a mezzanine and a four-tier diamond and gold chandelier dollar green gold-plated fantasies line
every supper time here forget about sitting on chairs this home has thrones and forget a home gym
sir okiowo has a home church you can pray after every meal in the glorious narthex complete with
oregon and grand piano people refer to sir okiowo the founder of gibraltar construction nigeria
limited as one of nigeria's silent billionaires although to be honest his lifestyle is pretty loud
and proud the man dresses like the pope and lives like king solomon the wealthiest king in the bible
not coincidentally his home church is called solomon's chapel of faith want to get baptized
after church you've got access to a b-ball court-sized swimming pool for that and we're
willing to bet no one ever actually swims in him sir okiowo's tennis court is pretty enough to make
king richard drool why have one rolls royce parked out in your garage when you can have seven of them
for seven times the price the mansion's 10 car garage's use is maximized by the billionaire with
seven chrome and gold spirits of ecstasy staring straight out at the glorious fountain the other
three cars rounding out his automotive starting lineup are an ebony mercedes-benz g500 an ivory
g500 an escalade and an s550 i saw an escalade 600 on fifth avenue in new york city at the time of
writing and thought to myself i think sir okiowa should add this 2021 caddy to his collection
what's 106k to a billionaire as you may have noticed all these mega states are in south africa
and nigeria africa's strongest economies the only other african billionaires are located in egypt
morocco zimbabwe eswatini and tanzania seven of africa's 54 countries have billionaires so
they're pretty much the only places you can find these types of super mansions