nds." Mr Thakkar, now 32, never went back to study. Instead, the precocious young man spent the mid-1990s criss- crossing the continent to establish Mara Group, an African conglomerate that recently gained greater prominence by linking up with Bob Diamond, the former chief executive of UK bank Barclays. Th

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