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A company with a strange-sounding name and American headquarters has been picking up zombie companies at a discount. And it is quickly amassing a decent portfolio of assets in the Kenyan market.
Shifty and hard to pin down, the company, Kuramo Capital, is led by Shaka Kariuki, a little-known name in Kenyan business circles but whose strategy is giving the firm impressive traction.
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