Get, Set, Mo! $1.6 Billion And Counting
JUST BACK IN DUBAI AFTER A WHIRLWIND trip dropping off his 18-year-old daughter at the School of Foreign Service at his alma mater, Georgetown University in Washington DC, the 46-year-old Tanzanian businessman, known in the hallowed corridors of the continent’s elite as “Africa’s youngest billionaire”, is more emotional than jet-lagged.
“I had to let go of her, you know, but I’m going to visit DC more often,” says Mohammed Dewji.
He could be speaking for himself too. In FORBES AFRICA’s July 2013 cover, he had said he puts in 100 hours a week growing MeTL into a pan-African conglomerate.
Today, he admits to slowing down “a little bit” – after his headline-grabbing kidnapping incident
