Kenyan multimillionaire steel tycoon Narendra Raval has landed a deal to publish his autobiography with Bloomsbury India, a subsidiary of Bloomsbury Publishing U.K.
In a private correspondence with this author, Raval revealed the book will be published next year in India, but will be distributed internationally. The Forward of the book was written by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
Terms of the agreement, in which Bloomsbury acquired worldwide publication rights for the autobiography, were not disclosed. But Raval has said he plans to donate all the proceeds from his royalties to charitable causes in Kenya.
In the autobiography, Raval will document his life story from his early days in India to his stint as a priest in Kenya, right to when he began to build his business empire.
Raval, who is famously referred to as ‘Guru’ in Kenyan business and social circles, was featured in FORBES’ ranking of Africa’s richest people with a fortune of more than $400 million in 2015. In 1992, after serving as a Temple assistant in a Swaminarayan temple in Nairobi, he took a business loan and started a roofing and fencing business that snowballed into the Devki Group, a company with steel and cement manufacturing facilities in Kenya, Uganda and Congo that today has annual revenues of more than $600 million.