Oprah Winfrey First Black Female Billionaire

Oprah Winfrey First Black Female Billionaire, The first Black female millionaire–and a little over 100 years later, Oprah Winfrey is proclaimed the first billionaire black woman by Forbes Magazine in 2003.

According to the 2011 Forbes Billionaire List, Nigerian business magnate Aliko Dangote with a net worth of $13.8 billion is the richest Black person in the world. The other Black billionaires on the 2011 list are South African gold magnate Patrice Motsepe with $3.3 billion, American Oprah Winfrey at $2.7 billion and Nigeria's Mike Adenuga with $2 billion.