Mohammed Dewji, Tanzania, Group Chief Executive Officer of Mohammed Enterprises Tanzania Limited
Dewji is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Mohammed Enterprises
Tanzania Limited (MeTL) and at 39 is the youngest member of the Forbes’
Africa’s 50 Richest list with an estimated net worth of USD $500
million.The MeTL Group began as a family business, a small trading company which Mohammed transformed into one of the largest industrial conglomerates in East Africa, with interests ranging from real estate, agriculture, finance, distribution and manufacturing.
The company employs more than 24,000 people across Tanzania and according to Dewji, generates annual revenues of USD$1.3 billion.
Dewji has been a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Tanzania since 2005. Dewji graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in International Business and Finance with a minor in Theology.
January Makamba Tanzania, Deputy Minister of Communication, Science & Technology.
January Makamba
Tanzania, Deputy Minister of Communication, Science & Technology and
Member of ParliamentMakamba is one of Tanzania‘s rising stars in
government. He is currently the Deputy Minister of Communication,
Science and Technology and is rumored to run for President in 2015.
Makamba is a
Member of Parliament for Bumbuli constituency in the National Assembly
of Tanzania. Before running for the Bumbuli parliamentary seat, Makamba
was aide to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete for 5 years.
Named Young
Global Leader class of 2012 by the World Economic Forum, Makamba comes
from a political family; his father, Yusuf Makamba was Secretary General
of the ruling CCM party under Julius Nyerere.
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