Nairobi, Jan. 13 -- Into my LinkedIn feed this week came a post by Ken Njoroge on his decision to step down as Cellulant CEO this year, after his 18 years of building a pan-African software company that has changed our world and other people's worlds too.

As just one example, Cellulant, years ago, created the electronic wallets for Nigerian farmers to get corruption-free fertiliser subsidies. How many lives were impacted with just that?

So, for sure, Cellulant is a jewel in Kenya's 21st Century crown.

Yet our Covid-19 year has changed so many things and seen most of us review our entire lives: what we were putting in, getting out, where we want to go, and who we want to be. And it has showed a lot of us that, sometimes, we get stuck with...