Nairobi, June 7 -- The nametag may read Vincent Odhiambo, Regional Director of Ashoka, but that would be false advertising. What he really is, is a contemporary yogi. His mind is whizzing: here, he is thinking about his family and friends and "people who come into your life for a reason".

There, his thoughts drift to systems and consciousness. He ruminates a lot on whether he could have been taller, but by the time he got to that water, his brothers had drunk most of it.

In many ways, he is a construction of his thoughts, spending vast amounts of time chained behind his brain cells. Or hanging out with much older people, getting good advice, a nutrient-rich broth made from boiling down the bones of life.

"Don't forget that life is all ...