Samuel Kamau Macharia’s life has been a fight from the very beginning. He built businesses with his own sweat, only to watch them attacked, seized, and torn away from him. He’s been arrested, dragged through endless court battles, and received countless threats.

Most people would have quit, but not Macharia. Each time he was knocked down, he rose again. When Royal Media was shut down and its equipment confiscated, he started over in 2003, determined, unbowed and ready to rebuild...