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Ashish Thakkar: The billionaire who wears a Sh240, 000 perfume

Ashish Thakkar [Photo: Courtesy]

Having a fortune worth more than half the current value of Kenya’s Eurobond, and being dubbed Africa’s youngest billionaire while still in his 20s by Forbes, has not gone to Mr Ashish Thakkar’s head.

He does not have that arrogant self-assurance many moguls relish projecting, nor does he have the inflated ego that so often stalks those at this level.

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