Miko Rwayitare (December 2, 1942 – September 25, 2007) was a Rwandan-born billionaire and the supposed father of mobile telecommunications in Africa.
It is reported that he made the first cellular phone call on the African continent in 1986.
[2] Rwayitare was born in Rwanda and educated in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) at the Collège Saint-Esprit and then Collège Notre-Dame in Bukavu and received an engineering degree in Germany at University of Karlsruhe in 1970.
[3] In 2001, he purchased the Mont Rochelle winery making it the first black-owned wine estate in South Africa.
[4] He was also the owner of Hôtel des Mille Collines on which the Film Hotel Rwanda was based.