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Folorunsho Alakija: From a middle-class home to becoming Nigeria s richest woman – Nairametrics

Folorunsho Alakija: From a middle-class home to becoming Nigeria s richest woman – Nairametrics
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The Amazon from Ikorodu @ 70

Festus Akanbi writes on the milestones of Nigeria’s billionaire industrialist and former world’s richest black woman, Chief (Mrs) Folorunsho Alakija, who clocked 70 years last Thursday In a society accustomed to male dominance of power and political leadership, it has been argued that the prevailing system in the country appeared to be wired to whittle down the chance of Nigerian women to easily clinch top political positions and corporate leadership. For instance, while there is no clear-cut rule that forbids women from aspiring into any position in Nigeria, there seems to be a conspiracy to confine female politicians to certain electoral offices.

Becoming Folorunsho Alakija at 70

Tell us about your upbringing and shareable infant memories? The meaning of my name is ‘God Protecter’ (Folorunso). And he has been doing that right from when I was in my mother’s womb. If it wasn’t for God, my mother wouldn’t have given birth to me. I thank God. I come from a polygamous home, from a family consisting of eight wives and 52 children. I am child number eight child to the glory of God. Growing up, we learnt so much. At an early age of seven, my parents decided to send me and one of my siblings, who was six-year-old at the time, to boarding school in England. And that was a big change in my life. The weather wasn’t kind of course, for a little girl who has been in the sun for all her life and now had to wear winter coats and socks up to her knees. I did notot like the cold and still don’t like the cold. Then, you have to have your bath only once a week, which was the rule in boarding school.

Folorunsho Alakija at 70: Standing out, standing tall

Folorunsho Alakija at 70: Standing out, standing tall
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