The staggering amount made 38-year-old Komuro the fourth-largest taxpayer in his country. (The three with bigger bills were a cosmetics tycoon, a property magnate and a financier.) Komuro is a man of many musical parts.

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And women in many parts of Africa are in a weak negotiating position when it comes to insisting that a man put one on.

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