Living with your parents longer than you should can hinder your developmental goals

With economic hardships, many young people prefer to stay in the nest a little longer as they find a footing in the world.

Before he clocked 30, Nelson Mandela had married his first wife Evelyn Ntoko, had two children, became the first national Secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) youth league and was a force to reckon with in anti-colonial politics.

Celebrated Kenyan trade unionist, educator, author, and statesman Tom Mboya who many regard as one of the nation's founding fathers, turned 32 in 1962. By then, he was married, was elected Conference Chairman at the All-African Peoples' Conference, and had ,helped build the Trade Union Movement in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, and across Africa.