PHOTOS: Aliko Dangote’s 60th birthday celebration

Africa’s richest man and philanthropist, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, celebrated his 60th birthday today.

Aliko was born 10 April, 1957 in Kano into a very prominent business family. He is the great grand son of Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, the richest African at the time of his death in 1955.

He had his early education in Kano and went to Al Azhar University in Cairo to study Business.