DAR ES SALAAM, June 23 -- THESE numbers should stop us in our tracks. Tanzania is home to 2,100-dollar millionaires — individuals with liquid investable assets exceeding 1.0 million US dollars.

We have five centi-millionaires worth more than 100 million US dollars each, and one dollar billionaire, Mohammed Dewji, the sole billionaire in all East and Central Africa.

According to the Africa Wealth Report 2025 by Henley & Partners and New World Wealth, our millionaire population has grown 17 per cent over the past decade, comfortably outperforming a continent whose overall HNWI numbers declined by 5.0 per cent in the same period.

We rank 12th wealthiest country on the continent and 3rd in East Africa. These are not small numbers.

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