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?