Nairobi, July 19 -- Jared Kangwana has a problem. People call him when they want his father, Jared Kangwana, a former influential Moi-era businessman. The meritocracy police want to make him their first arrest, saying he is where he is because of his father. "There's always an assumption that he's really the force behind what we're doing here, which is frustrating."

As the managing partner at Clyde & Co., he knows a famous name can be a crown on your head and a millstone around your neck. His father made his name. (His father is associated with the Monarch Group and a raft of real estate properties including Chester House.) Now Kangwana Jr is trying to separate his.

Not that it bothers him anymore. These days, he has bigger fish-or rath...