By David Pilling On his yacht in Lagos, he talks about his ambitious oil refinery — and his dream of buying Arsena As a rule, I don’t get worked up over oil refineries. But the one gradually taking form on 2,500 hectares of swampland outside Lagos, Nigeria’s Mad Max commercial capital, is so big, so audacious and so potentially transformative that it is like Africa’s Moon landing and its Panama Canal — a Pyramids of Giza for the industrial age. If Aliko Dangote, the billionaire businessman behind what even he…
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