The Forbes ‘Best of Africa’ is a prestigious award which is presented to marketers and businessmen reaching considerable difference of their corporations and area. The 2021 Forbes BOA (Best of Africa) awards recently recognised a number of the pinnacle businessmen, innovators and leaders from Africa, from specific area and fields including commercial enterprise, innovation, politics, financial system and management. Considering the continued pandemic and the entirety going online, the honours had been distributed to the recipients on the Forbes-FIN (Foreign Investment Network) Leadership & Philanthropy Roundtable convention that became lately held through a digital meeting.
While Dr. Rajan Mahtani was invited as a honorary speaker during the event, he was also bestowed with the ‘Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Year’ award 2021 which is a Forbes Distinction Certificate for his top notch entrepreneurial and commercial enterprise contributions to the Zambian society in addition to upholding the spirit of the Zambian state. Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani has been operating tirelessly for almost four decades, and the goal has constantly remained same- to take Zambian economy and society to new heights. He is an experienced serial entrepreneur and businessman with several pinnacle establishments below his name, along with however now no longer constrained to Mahtani Group of Companies, Finsbury Investments and Finance Bank Zambia. He is likewise recognised for his charitable and philanthropic contributions throughout the Zambian state including investment correctional centres in addition to contributing to the Zambian schooling with the founding of the Steven Malama award. The award comes with a scholarship which is given to the top law graduating candidate from Zambian law school. As such, it can be said that his contributions were duly recognised by the Forbes business community.