Forbes' 2011 rich list topped records with 1 210 billionaires making it onto the list. Their total net worth is $4.5 trillion, which is nothing to be scoffed at.
There are 14 Africans on the list this year - an increase of three people - and it includes South Africans, Nigerians and Egyptians.

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