{UAH} Forbes names Ugandan youth among most promising young entrepreneurs under 35

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Respected magazine, Forbes released every year a list of young Africans under 35 who are building thriving million-dollar businesses.

This year, a Ugandan is named among the list dominated by Nigerians, South African and Kenyans. Rwanda and Tanzania have a representative, which has no South Sudanese, Congolose or Burundian, among our neighbours.

The good news is; most of the young businesses are in the Technology field.

Below we pick out the Ugandan, and his fellow East Africans that made it to the list and what they do:

Samuel Malinga, Ugandan
Founder, Sanitation Africa
The 26 year-old Ugandan agricultural engineer won the Tony Elumelu Prize for Business at the 2015 Future Africa Awards. His company, Sanitation Africa, has developed a full-cycle sanitation system that starts with a local, low-cost yet hygienic modular latrine and ends with the conversion of sludge into cooking briquettes and agricultural manure.

Rwanda
Clarisse Iribagize, Rwandan
Founder, HeHe Ltd 
Iribagize, 27, runs Kigali-based mobile technology company HeHe Limited, which builds custom mobile applications for businesses, provides 24/7 online and offline support and cloud storage services. Iribagize founded the company in 2010 after winning a $50,000 grant from Inspire Africa, a Rwandan TV entrepreneurial contest. Iribagize's clientele includes a number of government agencies in Rwanda.
 
Tanzania
Nadeem Juma, Tanzanian
Co-founder, AIM Group
In 2004, and at the age of 19, Tanzanian serial entrepreneur Nadeem Juma founded Efulusi Africa, a software development company that develops custom software with a focus on mobile finance apps and aggregation. Efulusi is credited for developing and deploying Tanzania's first mobile banking platform. In 2014, Juma, now 31, founded AIM Group, a leading digital agency in the East African country. AIM Group now has 25 employees and has some of Tanzania's most prominent brands as clients.
Kenya
Hilda Moraa
Co-founder, Weza Tele
Moraa, 27, is the founder of Weza Tele, a Kenyan fintech startup that provides a number of value added mobility solutions in commerce, supply chain, distribution and mobile payment integration. In May 2015 Afb, a Ghanaian financial services group acquired the company for $1.7 million.
 
Eugene Mbugua
Founder, Young Rich TV
The 25-year-old Kenyan is the founder of one of Kenya's most successful television production companies. His company, Young Rich Television Limited, produces two of Kenya's most popular TV programmes – 'Young Rich' – a weekly show that profiles young, successful Kenyan entrepreneurs, and 'Get In The Kitchen'- an extremely popular cooking show. Both shows have aired for 9 and 4 seasons respectively, command viewership in the millions, and have sponsorship from several blue-chip companies in Kenya. Mbugua also owns My Yearbook Limited, a company that produces yearbooks and publications for companies, schools and governments. A real-estate company he owns is also developing a 188-unit hostel project to provide housing for students of Kenya's Egerton University.
 
Jamie Pujara
Founder, BuyRentKenya
Pujara, a 33 year-old Kenyan entrepreneur is the founder of BuyRentKenya, one of Kenya's most popular property listing sites. In 2015, South African online media firm One Africa Media acquired a stake in the company. The site, which Pujara founded in 2012, reports 150,000 visitors every month and has more than 15,000 listings of residential and commercial properties.
 
 
 
Trushar Khetia
Founder, Tria Group & Society Stores
Khetia, 29, is the founder of Tria Group, a Kenyan outdoor transit-advertising firm that uses public transit vehicles to market leading consumer goods in Kenya. He is also the founder of Society Stores, a fast-growing Kenyan retail chain with 5 outlets.
 
Source: Forbes.com

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