Reginald Mengi

Tanzanian billionaire and businessman (c.1943–2019) Reginald A. MengiPersonal detailsBorn29 May 1943Kilimanjaro Region, Tanganyika TerritoryDied2 May 2019(2019-05-02) (aged 75)Dubai, UAEResting placeMachame, Kilimanjaro RegionSpouse(s) Mercy Anne Mengi ​ ​(m. 1971, div 2015)​ Jacqueline Mengi ​ ​(m. 2016; died 2019)​Children5OccupationBusinessman, Media mogul, Philanthropist Reginald Abraham Mengi (c.1943 – May 2, 2019) was a Tanzanian billionaire, businessperson, philanthropist, and author of the book I Can, I Must, I Will. Reginald Abraham Mengi was born into a poor family in Northern Tanzania and raised in a mud hut which the family shared with cows, sheep, goats and chickens. He had one meal a day and sometimes none at all and walked to school barefoot. Notwithstanding these circumstances he managed to study accountancy and articles with Cooper Brothers in the United Kingdom and after being accepted as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, he returned to Tanzania in 1971 and was employed by the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand Tanzania. He stayed with Coopers & Lybrand Tanzania (now PriceWaterHouseCoopers) up to September 1