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How many rich black women can you name with a net worth of over 100 million in the world
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Can you name three or five? Well, today we have the list of the top nine richest black women in the world
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All of the women on the list are worth over not 100, but 200 million
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And a few of them have even reached billionaire status. Hi, my name is Jared and welcome to Black Excellence, where we share interesting things in Black culture and society in every episode
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So let's get to our list of the richest Black women in the world
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Here are the 9 richest black women in the world in 2021 according to Forbes, starting with number 9
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Coming in at number 9, we have Serena Williams. The tennis champion has been amassing her wealth since she was a teenager
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Currently, Serena's net worth is estimated to be $225 million. According to Forbes, Serena has amassed $94 million in career prize money alone
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She also has a clothing line, a venture capital firm, and also owns stakes in the Miami Dolphins and the UFC
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Another business venture for the star tennis player is a first-look TV deal she signed with Amazon Studios in 2021
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This will include a docuseries about her. Serena also was among the first investors in the NFT platform Bitski in a funding round announced in May 2021
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8. Janice Bryant-Howroyd Janice Bryant might not be a household name but she is one of the most successful business women in America Janice is founder and CEO of Act One a provider of workforce solutions Her net worth is estimated to be million as of 2021
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Act One's estimated revenue was a staggering $950 million according to Forbes
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On top of her top earning company, Janice also is invested in real estate
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including commercial rental properties and residences. At number 7 we have Beyonce. What more can be said about Beyonce that you don't know already
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Since her days with Destiny's Child as a teenager, the queen bee has been amassing her wealth one hit
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at a time. She is currently estimated to be worth a whopping $500 million. Besides her successful
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career as a performer, Beyonce has had multiple clothing lines. The latest one being the active
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wear line Ivy Park. The line was initially launched in 2014 with Topshop. Ivy Park has
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also partnered with Adidas for their 2019 and 2020 collection. The collections were immediately
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sold out upon release. At number 6 we have Ngena Kenyatta. Properly known as Mama Gena, Ngena Kenyatta is the former first lady of Kenya
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She is the widow of the country's first president Jomo Kenyatta and the mother of the current
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Kenyan president Uru Kenyatta. She is one of the wealthiest women in Africa with an estimated worth of $515 million
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Mamagina controls some of the largest privately held land holdings in Kenya
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The Kenyatta family also owns Kenya's largest dairy company as well as having stakes in
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several other industries including banking television and timber production At number 5 we have Haji Aboya Shigaya This Nigerian businesswoman started her career with the audit department of the Central Bank
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of Nigeria. It was back in 1983 that she ventured out into commercial activities
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becoming an importer of photographic materials. She is now the CEO of Bulmas Group International
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a conglomerate with interest in oil, real estate, banking, and more. This puts her net worth at an estimated $700 million
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Haji is also a huge fashion and art enthusiast. Number 4, Sheila Johnson
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Sheila Johnson made her money co-funding the cable TV channel, Black Entertainment Network, also known as BET, back in 1979
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with then-husband Robert Johnson. It was a great payday for Sheila when Viacom bought BET for $2.9 billion in 2001
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But only a year later, the Johnsons got divorced and she sold off her shares
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Since then, Sheila has ventured into hotel ownership and investment in real estate
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She is the CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts and was the first African-American woman to attain a net worth of $1 billion
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dollars. Forbes estimates Sheila's current net worth to be about $770 million
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At number three, we have Falun Cho Akija. Falun Cho is the vice chair of Fanfo Oil
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a Nigerian oil exploration company. Fanfo Oil's partners include Chevron and Petrobras
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The Nigerian businesswoman started her entrepreneurship venture with a fashion label and was awarded an oil prospecting license from the Nigerian government in 1993 According to Forbes Fulrinsho is worth billion She is currently the only female billionaire in Africa At number 2 we have Rihanna
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In 2021, Forbes officially declared Rihanna a billionaire, making her the richest female
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musician in the world. Rihanna's net worth is estimated to be at $1.7 billion. But according
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to the publication, the majority of the singer's wealth came not from her music career, but from
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her growing fashion and beauty business. Fenty Beauty, a cosmetics company where Rihanna has 50
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ownership, is valued at a staggering $2.8 billion. The lingerie line Savage & Fenty
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where she owns a partial stake is worth an estimated $270 million
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And at number one, the richest black woman in the world, you guessed it, Oprah Winfrey
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Miss Oprah Winfrey needs no introduction and no explanation on how she made her money
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Oprah's net worth is estimated to be $2.6 billion according to Forbes
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Besides her super successful talk show that ran for 25 years, Oprah's media empire includes the cable channel OWN and O Magazine
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Recently, Apple announced a unique multi-year partnership with Oprah to create original programming
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She also has a partial ownership in companies like Weight Watchers, now called WW International, True Food Kitchen, Oatly, and Appeal Sciences
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That's it for this episode. We'll be back with another episode in Black culture and society
