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'Africa's youngest billionaire'
Ashish Thakkar has been described as Africa's youngest billionaire. He started out with nothing - his family were made refugees twice, and he narrowly escaped the Rwandan genocide
Ashish Thakkar has been described as Africa's youngest billionaire. But he started out with nothing. His family were made refugees twice, and he narrowly escaped the Rwandan genocide as a teenager. Ashish dropped out of school at 15 to set up his first business selling computer parts, and went on to set up a business group which now employs 11,000 people in 25 African countries.
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