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The Pan African Tobacco Group announced on January 3 that its founder, industrialist and entrepreneur Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa, will retire after a successful.!
By Paul Ndiho
Born in Rwanda, Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa has consistently overcome adversity– to become one of Africa’s leading businessman and philanthropists.
His a personal fortune estimated in the tens of millions of dollars includes a shopping mall, a cement factory, a brewery, tobacco farms, processing plants and several other businesses. His ability to succeed, despite repeated hardships is remarkable.
Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa, a self-exiled industrialist whose business ventures spanned multiple sectors including tobacco and real estate.
“I don’t see myself as Rwandese, I see myself as African… I wish when I die that whatever I started can continue not for looking at expending the business but building up something. And this is what I tell my kids.
This is the legacy I’ll leave with my children. I want them to continue building something in Africa.”
At age 73, Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa is one of Rwanda’s most prominent entrepreneurs– and a key player on the African continent.
From an early age, Rujugiro Ayabatwa knew he wanted to be a businessman and philanthropist– and his so