How persistence built business empire

He is considered one of the more successful entrepreneurs in Eldoret, but by just looking at him, you would not know this. Stephen Mugwira Nduati keeps a low profile. And while he could easily afford to live in one of the town’s leafy suburbs, he instead resides in an estate largely populated by middle-income earners.

But perhaps he shuns the ostentatious lifestyle because he knows how easy it is to lose it all — and he nearly did in the 2008 post-election violence, when several of his businesses were looted. Still, Mr Nduati is not one to let a few bumps derail his life’s plan to succeed in business.