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'Wazungu Nyeusi'- Eldoret businessmen built empires from nothing

It wasn’t magic, but sweat, determination and sheer hard work that saw a group of old men in Uasin Gishu rise from obscurity to be regarded as ‘wazungu nyeusi.’

William Chemweno, Kite arap Tiren, John Kibogy, Elijah Maina, Elisha Busienei, Jackson Kibor, Paul Boit, David Samoei, Atanas Kandie and Isaac Kosgei among others who all fall all under the chumek age set according to Kalenjin age group, surmounted great challenges to build empires from nothing.

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