New Equity Bank boss takes trip down to where it all begun

Outgoing Equity Bank Chairman Peter Munga and his successor David Ansell at a shop in Kangema, Murang’a County, where the bank was born 35 years ago. [Allan Mungai, Standard]

The small dimly lit room where the multi-billion dollar dream was born remains largely unchanged 35 years later.

The room in a single story building on the Kangema-Kiriaini road in Murang’a County is now unoccupied, but still stores the rich history of Equity Bank, which grew to become one of the biggest banks in East and Central Africa.