{UAH} Wow! Meet 32 year old Ugandan who makes 600 million on a bad month
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Meeting Christopher Ategeka in the high-rise business incubator where his three start-ups are headquartered in San Francisco, one would never guess that this urbane young man, named last year as one of Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 social entrepreneurs, started life in a thatched hut with dirt walls in rural Uganda—and was in his teens before he owned his first pair of shoes.
Imagine a nine-month-old baby in sub-Saharan Africa, taken away from his mother when his parents' marriage dissolves. His father is a traveling merchant, who only occasionally returns to their village. The baby is left in the care of his paternal grandmother, a deaf-mute living in dire poverty. His grandmother is consigned to the profoundest social isolation in a place where illiteracy is the norm for women of her generation. Loving and resourceful, she has invented a private sign language, which she uses to communicate with her grandson (who, as a result, becomes preternaturally good both at expressing himself and figuring out what others are trying to say). She nurtures the infant on whatever milk she can barter for scavenged grain. He starts life holding tight to a precious kernel of knowledge that will help him throughout the harrowing years to come: there is someone on this earth who both loves and believes in him.
Christopher Ategeka didn't even know precisely how old he was until he managed, on one of his business trips back to Africa, to unearth records that established the year of his birth as 1984.
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