Through our recent investment, Dangote Cement has eliminated Nigeria’s dependence on imported cement and has transformed the nation into a net exporter of cement, serving neighboring countries.
Dangote Cement is Africa’s leading cement producer with operations in 11 African countries, and revenues more than US$3 billion in 2025. We are a fully integrated quarry-to-customer producer with production capacity of up to 55 million tonnes per annum (Mta) across Africa as of 2025. We have operational facilities in Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Ivory Coast.
Our business is organised into two strategic regions: Nigeria and Pan-Africa. Each region pursues its business plan in line with the overall corporate strategy set out by the Group’s Board and Executive Management, but mindful of the prevailing conditions in each market.
Nigeria is sub-Saharan Africa’s largest market for cement, consuming more than 28Mt in 2025. From our four factories, all located south of the country’s two main rivers, we can reach every local market in Nigeria with our extensive and market-leading fleet of distribution trucks. In 2025, we sold 27Mt of cement to the domestic market.
Our Pan-African operations encompass everything outside of Nigeria.
WEST AFRICA
Our operations in West Africa and Central Africa are located in Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Cameroon, Republic of Congo and Ivory Coast. In the coming years we plan to extend our reach with integrated plants and grinding plants in strategic locations. We could also consider increasing the size of our existing integrated and grinding plants.
EASTERN & SOUTHERN AFRICA
In the east and south of Africa we have existing or planned operations in Ethiopia, South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe. All these countries have ample native limestone, so all our facilities there will be integrated factories, with the exception of the Delmas cement milling plant in South Africa.
Countries on Africa’s east coast are to some degree exposed to cheap imports from Pakistan and the Far East. As a result, our strategy is in most cases to site our factories well inland, where pricing is higher and where imported cement would face additional shipping costs to reach the market.
With approximately 200 million inhabitants,
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous country in the world.
Dangote Cement operates three manufacturing plants in Nigeria
The population of Africa is projected to grow to 2.5 billion by 2050
Urban population of
Africa is forecast to be
1.5 Billion
