Tanzanian billionaire Reginald Mengi with his family. The business tycoon started by selling ballpoint pens. The author and philanthropist died in Dubai aged 75. PHOTO | COURTESY
When Forbes put Reginald Mengi’s fortune at around $550 million a few years ago, few would have realised that he actually started by selling ballpoint pens.
In fact, with Tanzania experiencing shortage of almost everything during the mid-1983 to 1984, the Tanzanian dollar millionaire, who died in Dubai, had to sweat to get the ballpoint pens, he wrote in his book: I Can, I Must, I Will.
