Ugandan tycoon Sikander Lalani fled genocide in 1994 and built a $255 million steelmaker

Billionaires Africa | 30.07.2026 06:07
In April 1994, Sikander Lalani was fifty years old, running a roofing sheet factory in Kigali that he had spent sixteen years building. Within weeks he had abandoned it and crossed into Tanzania with what he could carry.