Manu Chandaria is a billionaire who evokes pride and admiration from most Kenyans. The reasons for that are very simple. His wealth unlike many other billionaires in Kenya, is untainted by the asterisk of ill-gains or graft.

His journey is one that shows hard work and deliberation. Proof that even in Kenya hard work can pay. Yes, even I am shocked to write that last line.

David Cheriton

This Stanford professor and early investor in Google drives a simple 2002 Honda Odyssey. He has a net worth of 6.4 billion dollars.

He lives in a relatively modest house and he reportedly told the Edmonton Journal in a 2006 interview.

These people who build houses with 13 bathrooms and so on, there’s something wrong with them.