Manu Chandaria

Kenya. Chandaria built the family trading business his father started in Nairobi into the Comcraft Group, which makes steel, aluminium and plastic goods, from roofing sheets to household utensils, for Kenyan and East African buyers who previously relied on imports. Local manufacturing of everyday materials is unglamorous, but it is how many households roofed their homes, and he is also known as one of Kenya's leading philanthropists.