10 Things you should know about Mohammed Dewji

Mohammed Dewji is widely known as the founder of

1. Mohammed Dewji was born on 8 May 1975 in Ipembe, Singida.
2. He is the second of six children of Gulamabbas Dewji and Zubeda Dewji.
3. They are Twelver Shias whose ancestors left Gujarat, India in the late 1800s to become traders in East Africa.
4. He was born with the help of a neighbouring midwife in a house built from sand and mud.
5. Mohammed attested that he almost died at birth due to having the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, a condition known as nuchal cord.
6. By the time he started school, his father had built a family shop into a thriving import-export company.
7. He received his primary education in Arusha at the Arusha Primary School and continued his secondary education at the International School of Tanganyika in Tanzania.
8. In 1992 his father enrolled him at the Arnold Palmer Golf Academy in Florida.
9. Dewji then moved for his last and final year of high school to the Saddle Brook High School in New Jersey.
10. Dewji attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in international business and finance and a minor in theology.