Africa wooed me, I followed her; she made me a business tycoon
Jul 19, 2013
In 1991, Abhay Agarwal quit a corporate job in India to come to Africa solely on a whim.
In 1991, Abhay Agarwal quit a corporate job in India to come to Africa solely on a whim.
He was not looking for better opportunities, but he wanted to experience the land he had fallen in love with earlier as a young man visiting on college holidays from India.
Today, he owns a multi- million dollar empire that ranges from Service and Computer Industries, the leading Information Technology Solutions company in Uganda; Kwality Afroasia, a pharmaceutical plant and retail chain; Tamarai, Kampala’s only Pan-Asian restaurant and ASA industries, Uganda’s only aluminium foil factory.
Agarwal also owns acres of pine and eucalyptus plantations with a view to setting up a paper industry. He told Clare Namanya and Sebidde Kiryowa how he transformed from a tourist to business mogul.
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