Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has been honoured as one of the 50 most influential persons contributing to humanity by Bloomberg.

Dangote was honored for his contribution to increasing local food production and reduce food imports in Nigeria.

The event took place at Bloomberg’s annual gala dinner in New York.

According to Bloomberg, Dangote has been honoured for “his outstanding commitment of over 4 billion dollars to increase Nigeria’s food production capacity”.

He was represented by the CEO of his foundation.

Others at the dinner were electric car visionary Elon Musk; Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salmon; Beatrice Fihn, anti-nuclear weapons advocate and Nobel Peace Laureate.