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African Wealth Briefing — Mon., April 6, 2026
Nathan Kirsh lost everything in 1986, kept one Brooklyn grocery store, and spent 50 years building it into a $29.1 billion empire — now he is Africa's second richest person at $17.1 billion, and we tell the full story.
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