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🇿🇼Pipeline of Legitimacy 🌐 Lobbying the expansion of the sales market for his oil empire, Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote has just pledged up to $1 billion investmentsin Zimbabwe. 🔸 The planned investments include a 2,200 km petroleum pipeline from Namibia’s Walvis Bay through Botswana into Zimbabwe. 🔸 At the other end of the projected pipeline in Namibia's Walvis Bay Dangote’s group aims to construct a 1.6 million-barrel fuel storage facility, that will serve as an entry point for fuel from Africa’s largest oil refinery, also owned and run by Dangote. ⏩ At the same moment Zimbabwe’s ruling party moves to keep incumbent president Mnangagwa in office until 2030. 🔸Amidst popular discontent over the suggested extension of the presidential mandate, Dangote did not skimp on compliments to the president, saying: There’s been quite a lot of change between when we came and now. The government is solid, when you look at what his excellency has done in turning the economy around. The bargain here is clear. However, while profit remain Dangote’s main objective, he also tends to build things that also work for people, which is a rare record among the very rich. Devils Below