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The tough cookie house that biscuit baron Manji built

Mandataly Manji with Sir Patrick Renison (centre) at the House of Manji factory along Likoni Road, Nairobi, 1962. [File, Standard]

Even business barons and billionaires were once youngsters who spent sleepless nights dreaming of cookies and candy, and also fantasised about expensive bikes and fast cars.

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