Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa’s Business and Philanthropic Legacy Will Outlive His Detractors Over the last 40 years, Rwandan businessman Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa built one of Africa’s most successful Tobacco companies. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Pan African Tobacco Group (PTG), the continent’s largest indigenous manufacturer of tobacco products. PTG, which manufactures in a dozen African countries and trades across the continent, is the most formidable competitor to the international tobacco giants, Altria and British American Tobacco in Africa. Ayabatwa’s profile today in African business and philanthropy might be intimidating, but his early beginnings were anything but. After his…
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