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By Ndungu Gathinji FCPA
To be or not to be?
Herdsboy or schoolboy?
Scholarly or playful?
Primary school
Aanake a 40(young men of 40)
Wiyathi na ithaka(freedom and land)
Orphaned on her majesty’s orders
Escorted to school
Common entrance examination
Gold Coast yapata kujitawala
Limited franchise
Sputnik
Kenya African Preliminary Examination
Yuri Gagarin
Peace Corp
NASA
FREE AT LAST
Rev. Douglas Melhuish
Cambridge School Certificate
Free Scholarship
“A” Levels( lower&upper sixth)
Not Yet Uhuru
Stephen Smith
Africanising Biashara street
Kenyanising the corporate office
Student trainee( university call up)
Accountancy wins( Magadi Soda co ltd)
Mzungu aende ulaya, Mwafrika apate uhuru
East African Airways Super VC 10
Nairobi/London/Manchester/Liverpool
Articled Clerk- Touche Ross(Edmund D White &
sons)
Two of everything
Irish and Africans
Loco parentis
Right first time(bad for morale)
British qualification
Kenya commercial bank
5th July 1969
So you want to be a chartered accountant?
Keah and Ndonye
Good bye England
Management Trainee
NCR 400
P G Egerton
Our African hope has left
Oui monsieur
Copper, Ujamaa and Idi Amin
Back to London
IBM system 3
Pan African bug
EAC goes up in smoke
Your country needs you
Financial controller
Pin striped suits and excess baggage
Panell Bellhouse Mwangi
Cook Sutton Gathinji
Big 8/big 4
ICPAK
IFAC
ECSAFA
ASEA
ISAR
PAFA
An inconvenient truth
Money any way you can get it
It is not what you know
It is whom you know.
Win at any cost
Humuka (take a breather)
Ask yourself- is your “true and fair view” really
true and fair?
Our children and grand children have a dream
of a society based on merit or do they?
Did your doctor qualify on merit?
Do you want armed guards or do you want a
secure environment?
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