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The profligacy that became en vogue among my peers in the past few years has left a peer group close to naked following the economy going belly up.

But as in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, life is always about sojourns away from, and back to, where we began.

In my sojourns, always in unfamiliar and new surroundings, growing older has always left a familiar emotion within me. An emotion that has led me to turn reflection into therapy enabling me to look back in order to stay grounded while also looking forward in order to be bold in my steps.

Turning 26 years of age today, these are some of the things I look forward to doing in the better half of my 20s:

1. Looking at this long list and recalling Salman Rushdie's words, "Always try and do too much..."
2. Advocating and championing the case of creating out of the box solutions when it comes to capital transfer to Africa and development of energy sources in Africa.
   
3. Building a framework to transform some of the learning in Africa from rote learning to critical analysis.
4. Contributing to a better election year in Kenya's 2012 General Election in whatever way or form I can.
5. Trying to publish an overdue African food cookbook whose recipes sit idle on my hard drive.
6. Employing my passion in the creation of more positive African media - news, music, video.
7. Moderating more open discussions on tribalism & ethnocentrism in Kenya.
8. Learning about and how to play more American sports.
9. Mentoring more at-risk kids in the inner cities.
10. Making better use of my passport.