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I spent every free minute in the US shining shoes - Billionaire Evanson Kamau Waitiki

Evanson Kamau Waitiki during an interview with The Nairobian

I went to America when I was very young. I remember wearing shoes for the first time on my way to the Embakasi Airport. They were small and very uncomfortable but I couldn’t tell anyone.

I studied for a Bachelor of science degree in geophysics, with a major in geothermal energy between 1963 and 1967 at the University of Sioux in South Dakota. My favourite subject was the whole issue of geothermal, which Kenya was just about to start exploring at Ol Karia in the Rift Valley.

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