DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 11 -- I know most of you have set up your new year resolutions by now, but on my side, the exercise of coming up with new resolutions has always been futile.

Somehow it is always customary for me to always sit back and reflect on the previous year as we start a new one, and this year has not been an exception.

I always do this not because I am wise, but because my head still has dents in it that tell the story better than any history book.

If archaeologists ever dig me up thousands of years from now, they will not need carbon dating, they will simply count the pan-shaped craters on my skull and conclude that this poor man was married.

As always, 2025 was a year of great ambition and even greater disappointment, mos...