the World Economic torum is a conterence tor optimists, lake Ashish Thakkar, a young businessman whose family fled Uganda in 1972 when Idi Amin expelled all the Asians and grabbed their shops. The Thakkars went to Britain, patiently rebuilt their fortunes and moved back to Africa in 1993. To Rwanda, as ill-luck would have it. The next year, during the genocide, they lost everything again. Most people would have given up on Africa at this point. Not Mr Thakkar. His companies now employ 7,000 people there, manning call centres and running farm projects.
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