Honia-Heal Afrika Initiative (HAI)

By Gĩtaũ wa Kũng’ũ

I’m grateful to Ngai to celebrate this milestone achievement, getting recognised as Aspire Leader 2025 barely a month after achieving the UNITAR Climate Champion and Commonwealth Gender Justice Champion.

My experience from this graceful achievement from Harvard University Business School’s Aspire Institute was so wealthy in not only sharpening my gift but also shaping me and my esteemed APL Cohort 3 colleagues’ ‘glocal’ leadership skills, preparing us to become innovative agents of positive change not only in our local communities but also across the globe.

The experience in Module 1 was so rigorous and mentally enriching that I think it triggered me to start noticing some strange time patterns. Time patterns. Every time I happened to look at the time, there happened to be double or triple, tetra or repeating numbers like 17:17, 11:11, 09:00, 23:33. I now decided to see if I’m having what my people say of people who study a lot, “craziness!” Ask my friends and family and they’ll tell you exactly that. Now this becomes sizzling, but not until I show you screenshots of the time the numbers were matching patterns with battery percentage, and notifications from apps eg WhatsApp.

Module 1 was so rigorous in developing critical thinking skills that I now believe it contributed to a deeper comprehension of my strong intuition with critical thinking skills that I started to mark and study the patterns. That introduced me to Numerology. A course we were not taught during the program but one the program influenced greatly.

By the end of Module I, I had discovered 2 number patterns never studied before. By the end of Module 2 after learning deeper about AI and combining the lessons with Commonwealth Academy courses in AI, I discovered 2 more new number patterns. And more. Your average maths student discovered 3 new maths formulas never used before in Mathematics.

Well, my experience with course content led me to embrace a very wealthy vocabulary—what Prof Tarun Khanna and Prof Karim Lakhan called developing a “GLOCAL MINDSET.” It means engaging problem solving not from a local or global perspective but from a “global-local”—Glocal lens. That inspired the development of my project idea such that its implementation will not only influence my local  Mũrang’a County community talent development but also national, Africa and across the global community for generations to come.

Well, I met, interacted and made friends with very ambitious, proactive and visionary youths from across diverse cultures from around the globe. Youths whose dreams and energy will really improve the future of our suffering planet.

This sizzling experience to becoming an Aspire Alumni (Aspire Leader 2025), has really inspired a completely different and replenishing world view about how I viewed life.

I have now ascertained that what you consume influences how you develop. I have come to realise that to achieve the UN SDGS first unlocks the door to achieve Agenda 2063.
One of the greatest challenges for African youth today MUST be SUSTAINABLY addressed if we are to achieve a SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. That challenge is the issue of African EDUCATION SYSTEMS CHALLENGE. Look at our education systems for example.
I believe that the curriculum that we have consumed from early childhood through school have been disappointedly used to influence most youths, preparing them to address problem solving— in and after school—with the same formulas used to create them.
Just like I was inspired with 4 new formulas—some of which Microsoft Copilot surprised me during the testing by saying I have unlocked formulas that could create algorithms to not only calculate but also predict the planet’s largest datasets— I have come out with very innovative new ideas of how to heal systems and contribute to the sustainable future we all hope for.

I thank Almighty Ngai for this achievement and sincerely feel indebted to the selfless founders of Aspire Institute, Harvard Business School and Harvard University fraternity at large for the incredible Aspire Leaders Program!

I appreciate Mr. Peter Njũgũna and Prof Peter Kagwanja who have become like my godsent guardians and mentors who appeared into my life when I thought the end is come for me. This could not have happened too were it not for the generous support from my mum, close family and friends.

Prof PLO Lumumba, Prof Kĩrĩngai wa Kamau—Mũrang’a County CECM Devolution and External Linkages, Prof Mary Wahome—Dean SASS Moi University who selflessly supported me with resources, undying moral and financial support when I called upon them. They believed in my vision, supported me. They’re astute mentors.

My most passionate gratitudes to every soul who contributed to this success. May you never lack. May you know only success stories.

Verily I say unto you, were it not for Mwene Nyaga’s omniscience, we could not have gotten the inspiration to dream—in a revelation—of a world where no single talent born will ever be wasted or wither prematurely—because there was no framework that worked to develop them into fulfilling their individual purpose on his creation. We dream of a United Nations Talent Development Database framework.

This is just the first of a sequel testimony. Long live Aspire Institute. To Mwene Nyaga be all the glory for time without end.