Samuel Tafesse (Ethiopia) is a highly successful entrepreneur and real estate developer who built one of the country’s most influential construction and development companies, Sunshine Investment Group, from humble beginnings into a major African business empire. Growing up in a low-income household in Addis Ababa, he began working at a young age to support his family and later started in construction as a self-taught contractor, quickly gaining a reputation for quality and reliability. Leveraging that foundation, he formally launched Sunshine in the 1980s and expanded the business into infrastructure, real estate, and hospitality, including the landmark