If you became aware that the practices, structures, systems, and institutions that you rely on are the reason for your stagnation and lack of progress, what would you do?

My Father HAD Money is Volume 1 of the Africa Reformation Series (ARS) by Advocate Kathy Dehlu Mhango. The purpose of this book, and that of others that will follow in the ARS, is to shed light on certain practices, structures, systems, and institutions that we have adopted in Africa and that we continue to follow, even though they may not be tangibly furthering our progress and development as individuals, as communities, as nations, and as a Continent.

In this book, Dehlu peeks into the financial trajectory of the professional in Africa [and beyond???], probing this profoundly significant issue in a conversational, storytelling style. The inspiration for the title of the book comes from a joke from Dehlu's days as a young student in Côte d'Ivoire. She has used the exact phrase "My father had money," to do justice to the original concept which inspired the title, but the book speaks about the financial trajectory of both male and female professionals, amongst other things.

In this book, Dehlu invites us to think our way out of the miry clay of stagnation and the mirage of professional success into the future we deserve as individuals, as communities, as nations, and as a Continent.

Advocate Kathy Dehlu Mhango is a legal professional admitted as an advocate by the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Local Division, in May 2012. Dehlu has a remarkable educational background, having obtained qualifications from the following institutions: University of Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (formally the National University of Côte d'Ivoire), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA, Look-A-Head Beauty Academy, Johannesburg, and the University of South Africa (UNISA) Pretoria. Before her legal career, she briefly worked as a freelance French-English translator in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.