Certainly Jambo Bwana is a very Kenyan ideology. We know that Jambo is a word that has travelled far beyond our shores, to that mysterious place of power that feeds our middle-class who are only asked to look at income statements and balance sheets and understand them and shut up about everything else and it will be alright. Occasionally, a drunken German tourist will encounter you, the accountant, walking home and she will misread you, and grab your balls, and you will freeze in terror and speak English and say;
‘Madam’, or ‘Pole madam, I am just the hotel accountant’.