Life story

Agostinho Kapaia grew up in Huambo and built Grupo Opaia into Angola’s most diversified private conglomerate, with 80,000 hectares of farmland and a $1.4 billion fertilizer plant under construction. There is a particular irony in the fact that one of […]

If asked who the richest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, you likely wouldn’t guess correctly. The title belonged to Howqua, a Chinese merchant who amassed a fortune equivalent to approximately 7.6 billion […]