Watch! Mengi’s journey from grass to grace

Reginald Mengi is dead

Reginald Abraham Mengi was born in 1944 in a poor family in Northern Tanzania and raised in a mud hut which the family shared with cows, sheep, goats and chickens.

He had one meal a day and sometimes none at all and walked to school barefoot just like most of us.

Notwithstanding these circumstances, he managed to study accountancy and articles with Cooper Brothers in the United Kingdom.

After being accepted as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, he returned to Tanzania in 1971 and was employed by the PriceWaterHouseCoopers.

He became its Chairman and Managing Partner in September 1989.

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In October 1989 Dr. Mengi left Coopers & Lybrand Tanzania to concentrate on his own businesses.

Today his flagship IPP Limited and its associated companies rank amongst the largest private companies in Tanzania.

Mengi owns the IPP Media media empire that mainly serves Tanzania and parts of East Africa.

The media group owns ITV, East Africa TV, Capital TV, Radio One, East Africa Radio, and Capital FM.

He is also the owner of printing company, The Guardian Limited, that publishes the Guardian, Nipashe and Alaska magazines.

Mengi passed on while undergoing treatment in Dubai on Wednesday night.

RIP Mengi!

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