Business & founders stories across Africa
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Founders who started from the ground and worked their way up.
Born in Durban to Lebanese parents, Stephen Saad was a millionaire at 29, then co-founded Aspen Pharmacare in 1997.
The youngest of nine children of a Durban teacher, Vivian Reddy built Reddy’s Electrical into Edison Power, and has backed clinics, schools and an AIDS orphans…
In 1984 Peter Munga started a small building society in his hometown. A decade later, James Mwangi joined to wind it up, and instead led a…
A salesman who repaired and sold gas cylinders, Chris Kirubi began buying run-down buildings in the early 1970s. He later chaired companies and held large stakes…
A failed first start-up and a dismissal at 17 did not stop Cosmas Maduka. The Coscharis Group now distributes major car brands and runs farms.
An accounting graduate who spent time at PwC in Dubai, Theo Baloyi founded Bathu in 2015. It now has more than 30 stores across South Africa…
From a ₦3,000 start in 1980 to the founding of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing in Nnewi in 2007, Innocent Chukwuma built a company step by step.
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