Rich and gifted: Kenyan sports stars with affluent backgrounds

It’s an interesting statistic. The Kenyan sports scene is often defined by rags to riches stories with talented children from poor families braving huge odds to ascend to stardom.

But there are classical examples of kids from rich families who have made it big on the global stage. For example, tennis icon Paul Wekesa is the son of former Cabinet minister Dr Noah Wekesa. He won three doubles titles, achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 100 and reached two tour-level quarterfinals at Auckland in 1989 and Seoul in 1995.