The Billionaire Who Is Redefining Black Wealth, Philanthropy, and Global Opportunity

BLACK EXCELLENCE Robert F. Smith The Billionaire Who Is Redefining Black Wealth, Philanthropy, and Global Opportunity (pp. 32 to 38) By the SHIN'AFRIKA Magazine Editorial Board The question the modern wealth economy asks, and a question it does not. The question it asks is the one every quarterly report, every portfolio statement, every league table is built to answer: how much has been accumulated? The question it does not ask is the one this magazine was founded to pose: how much has been opened? The distinction is not semantic. Accumulation is the private work of a private fortune — a number that grows, an estate that compounds,...