Many Kenyans know SK Macharia as the mogul who owns Royal Media Services,Kenya's largest media conglomerate in terms of reach.
However, SK as he is popularly known, once lived life as a homeless scavenger during the colonial days.
Nation Media Group-owned website, Nairobi News, reported that after SK's mother passed on in Kenya, the family; Macharia, his sisters and his father, moved to Arusha.
While there, he kept the company of young Maasai herdsmen when the colonial government declared a State of Emergency in Kenya and extended the crackdown on Mau Mau dissidents into Tanzania.
The government had decided to forcefully repatriate the Kenyans in Tanzania back to their country.
During that time, he once went home only to find that it had been burnt to the ground and his family rounded up and gone.
He then stayed with young Maasai herders who accommodated him as they roamed for two years before he realised that they had travelled to a place near Thika.
SK stayed behind, and for months, moved around, scavenging for food leftovers in the market as he traced his way back to his real home in Ndakaini.
Another lesser known fact about the media mogul is that before he got into the lucrative industry, he first owned a tissue paper company, Madhupaper.
He also once worked as a sweeper in the United States where he had gone to study.
SK took up a job as a sweeper at American plane manufacturer Boeing so as to get money for his school fees.
