Nanga, the computer dealer

Ajibu Nanga, 36, started selling computers three years ago under the name A Nanga Computers.

He says he just wanted to try out, and he got three laptops from South Africa to start with.

“I am a business-minded person. I had friends in the same business who were doing well and I told myself that I would put my money, my energy and brains in that business and it has worked,” says Nanga who was previously in the produce business.

Nanga completed his secondary education in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1998, but it was not until 2002 when he joined the financial sector as a bank teller at National Bank.

He worked at National Bank and Standard Bank before he ventured into his own business.

“In 2007 I had an eye problem, and my doctor said I needed to stop working. So, I went into a small- scale business selling maize for two years until it flopped,” he recalls.

He says it was the bank experience that helped him to do well in business by applying customer care skills.

“I apply the experience I got from the bank in my business and it works like magic. I was a teller when I first joined the banking industry and I left as a foreign exchange senior clerk at Standard Bank.

I practice relationship marketing in my business. I value my relationship with customers to ensure that I create loyalty and that has worked for me. My customers serve as advertisers to others,” he says.

Through the business, he has employed two people. Among other items, A Nanga Computers sells both brand new and second-hand desktop computers, laptop computers, printers and tablets. The stocks are of different brands, such as Toshiba, HP, Dell, Acer and Samsung.

Nanga comes from Mlambala Village, Traditional Authority Kuntumanji in Zomba.