Meet The Richest Man in Tanzania

Mohammed Dewji has been ranked as the richest man in Tanzania as of the year 2020.

Mohammed Gulamabbas Dewji is a Tanzanian billionaire businessman and a former politician. He is the owner of MeTL Group, a Tanzanian conglomerate founded by his father in the 1970s.

The former Member of Parliament was born on May 8, 1975, in Ipembe.

Dewji as mentioned was born in Ipembe, Singida. He is the second of six children of Gulamabbas Dewji and Zubeda Dewji.

He began his primary education in Arusha at the Arusha Primary School and continued his secondary education at the International School of Tanganyika (IST) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

In 1992 his father enrolled him at the Arnold Palmer Golf Academy in Orlando, Florida, where Dewji also attended Trinity Preparatory School for 11th Grade. Dewji then moved for his last and final year of high school to the Saddle Brook High School in New Jersey.

Dewji attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in international business and finance and a minor in theology.

He served as a member of the Tanzanian Parliament for Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) from 2005 to 2015 for his hometown of Singida.

He is currently married to Saira Dewji with whom he has three children.

Mohammed Dewji Net Worth

Dewji is responsible for increasing MeTL’s revenues from $30 million to over $1.5 billion between 1999 and 2018. MeTL Group has investments in manufacturing, agriculture, trading, finance, mobile telephony, insurance, real estate, transport and logistics, and food and beverages.

The group conducts business in 11 countries and employs over 28,000 people with the aim to target over 100,000 people by 2021. MeTL’s operations contribute about ~3.5% of Tanzania’s GDP.

As of October 2019, Forbes estimated Mohammed Dewji net worth to be US$1.9 billion. Dewji is also the first Tanzanian to cover Forbes Magazine in 2013.