Mommar Taal founded Tropingo Foods, which grew to become Gambia’s largest groundnuts processing and exports business by 2015, with an annual turnover of $1.6 million. PHOTO | COURTESY
University of York, Canada. The year is 2005 and Mommar Mass Taal, a 17 year-old Gambian student, is here to pursue his undergraduate degree in economics and development, in the footsteps of his father who was a diplomat in Kenya.
In his free time, Mommar prints T-shirts with images of his idols including Patrice Lumumba and Nelson Mandela. The clothing gains popularity among his friends and soon the entire 60,000-student campus wants T-shirts.
