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Peter Munga

Kenyan businessman and entrepreneur

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
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Peter Kahara Munga is a Kenyan businessman and entrepreneur. Formerly, he was the chair of the Equity Bank Group, the largest bank holding company on the African continent by customer numbers, as of 31 June 2014. He is reported to be one of the wealthiest individuals in Kenya, with a personal net worth exceeding US$100 million as of February 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Munga” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.