Less than 24 hours after its release,Femi Otedola’s book, ‘Making It Big: Lessons from a Life in Business’, has climbed to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list.
The much-anticipated memoir, which hit the book shelves on Monday, 18 August, 2025 has quickly climbed to No. 4 on Amazon’s Best Sellers in Business Biographies and Memoirs category. It sits just behind Gary Stevenson’s “The Trading Game”, Simon Squibb’s “What’s Your Dream?” and Phil Knight’s classic “Shoe Dog”
The 62 –year-old Lagos State born businessman, in the 286-page memoir gave full details how his struggle with academics pushed him out of the classroom and into the world of business, where he would later make his fortune to make him what he is today.
The billionaire businessman’s work captures the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, spotlighting the risks, resilience, and defining choices that propelled him to success.
According to Otedola, a chairman of Geregu Power, the publication is a personal reflection on the “lessons, setbacks, and triumphs” that shaped his entrepreneurial path.
Copies of the book are now available in major bookstores across Africa — from Abuja and Lagos to Accra, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, and Kampala — as well as in London.
