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  • MGENI KIPOFU

    MGENI KIPOFU

    (Picha kwa hisani ya MuseumNext)

     

    Na Abdul S. Shaban

     

    Tazama bila ya hofu, hapo ndipo utaona,
    Alosema muongofu, alitazama kwa kina,
    Pasinapo hitilafu, mimi naye naungana,
    Kuwa mgeni kipofu, hata kama anaona.

    Mgeni huwa kipofu, hata kama anaona,
    Vitu vyenye upotofu, hasemi atauchuna,
    Huwa anaudhohofu, mjuvi kuonekana,
    Kweli mgeni kipofu, hata kama anaona.

    Hata aone mnofu, nayo pilau imefana
    Huku njaa takatifu, mgeni imembana,
    Kusema ni ualifu, japo aona bayana,
    Haki mgeni kipofu, hata kama anaona.

    Mwisho ninawaarifu, wa juzi, leo na jana,
    Muone na msadifu, wala hamtabishana,
    Zaidi utamsifu, mjumbe wake Rabbana,
    Haki mgeni kipofu, hata kama anaona.

  • Hope In Abundance

    Hope In Abundance

    {Photo courtesy of Forbes}

    By Caren Chelagat

     

    Sun rays shimmers as he awake a story

    A story of a new dawn that awakens sunrise

    Sunrise as the flower beams in the Wild Wild West

    The serenity is comforting and seems to speak of inner peace

    Inner peace that awakens inner beauty

    The beauty in life that makes it glamorous and soothing

    We are set to look to the East as we await for the wits

    The universe is not our home

    As we set out to seek solace

    We are masters of peacemakers

    Art in making all a complete will

    A complete understanding that rocks it all

    We are all left to gaze at the stars as they twinkle as that is ideally where we got the glimmer

    Let in the the sun beam

    That lights up the one dream

    That we used to have when we don’t sleep

    And wish for the best seems

    Hope is never lost.

  • MUSIC

    MUSIC

    [Photo courtesy of Freepik]

    By Caren Chelagat

    Music came from a Greek word, [Mousike], which means art of the Muses. No one invented music, sounds they heard from different animals might have led humans to make music, years ago when humans used different noises to express fears and joys. Listening to music; can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory.

    Music may have a healing capacity during stressful weak situations since when we get to listen to music, we get to release dopamine ,which makes us feel good. Music is a vital aspect of culture. It has the ability to invoke age-old traditions or to incite people to social change. Music’s ability to connect individuals to social and cultural experience is one of its most important characteristics.

    Music is extremely beneficial to society.  It helps bring people together and has the unique ability to represent a culture as a whole. It can also be used as a way to relax.  Everyone gets stressed or anxious from time to time, even if it’s not about school or work pressures. Some individuals use music as a way to calm themselves down when they’re feeling this way. A lot of people listen to their favorite songs when they’re in bed or taking a shower, as it can help them relax.

    Music is a form of art and artists express themselves through music, music has been used as a way to express oneself throughout history. Music can be a great outlet for people to express themselves. Some songs are extremely personal and allow the singer or a songwriter to get out feelings and thoughts that don’t have a simple way of being put into words.

    Aside from its function of bringing people together, music is also used for entertainment and art purposes by some cultures. For example, a lot of modern music is composed in a very creative way and has some degree of artistic value like in the world today where we have a number of artists who perform different genres of music that we get to choose which genre to listen to.

    Songs can hold so much importance to people, they are often used as a way to commemorate moments in time. Whether it’s at a wedding, funeral or any other special occasion, music is always present and can help make the moments more memorable. Many people believe that music is a universal language. This means that, regardless of what country someone is from, they will be able to understand and enjoy a song without knowing the lyrics. Since music doesn’t rely on words, it has the ability to connect two different culture which no other form of communication can, since people listen to the beats and melodies of the song.

    Life would be very quiet without music, our life without melodies and harmonies would be very empty. Music has the ability to convey all types of emotions and we are glad that music is there for us during our trying times and stress.

  • Issue 247

    Issue 247

    Use the link below to access the Involvement Newspaper Issue 247 which features a range of articles written by our writers to ensure that you stay informed on News within and outside Daystar.

     

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  • SIM Card Registration Deadline Locks Out Thousands

    By Angela Mutayi.

    The dawn of the 15th of October was not that of a new day alone but also a new phase for Kenyan communication. This is after thousands of unregistered Kenyan SIM cards were suspended by their various telecommunication companies following the set deadline by the Communications Authority of Kenya. Communications had been made to Kenyans from earlier this year to register their SIM cards under their national identity cards by 15th of April to avoid suspension. This deadline was extended to 15th of October, following a low turnout after which unregistered SIM card owners have had their SIM cards suspended. Unregistered Safaricom SIM holders suffer the biggest blow because they are now unable to access MPESA, a popular money transfer means as well as communicate via text messages or purchase browsing bundles. Affected clients have since been advised to visit their nearest Safaricom outlets and have their SIM cards registered.

    The move by the Communications Authority of Kenya to have all Kenyan SIM owners register their cards is to lock out SIM-based fraudsters. Fraud has been a rising issue in Kenya where many are extorted of money via text messages or calls. The perpetrator often presents opportunities such as fake rewards and asks for money in return to cater for whatever the situation demands. Some have mastered the art of configuring money transfer messages similar to MPESA ones and dishing them out to unaware individuals as accidental transfers after which they ask for reversals and end up scamming the individuals. There have been many unprecedented forms of extortion on the rise which have pushed the hand of CA to act in this manner. I believe that in so doing, telecommunication companies have information on their users, and in case of any scam, relevant action can be taken. This move will also ward off attempts by scammers because they often use unregistered or stolen SIM cards in their work.

    Subsequently, there has been a rather low turnout to register lines in the wake of the call. The move to extend SIM card registration from 15th April to 15th October 2022 was after over 14 million Kenyans had failed to register their cards before the initial deadline. My take on all this is that most Kenyans have been ignorant of the matter. Many lack information on the importance of registration or simply what it entails. Some are simply oblivious to the situation at hand, and others do not see the need to provide their personal information to the telecommunication companies again. I mean, why register again when they already have my details right? A recent conversation with a group of friends sparked up the topic, and one asked why they simply could not lift the same details he had provided when he acquired the card and use them for the registration. My take is to countercheck that indeed the holder of this SIM card is the same one on the details you will provide.

    Communication is one domain that continues to develop with technology. Artificial Intelligence is now taking over communication and as a developing nation, these global trends bound to catch up with us. The only issue is that it has caught up with others more than the rest, and some are still in the dark. SIM card registration is only a progressive move in a much bigger and developing telecommunications system. I believe that the future is bright, and in all the negativity and darkness the web sometimes holds, there is a light, there is security and protection against them and for Kenya, and the Communications Authority of Kenya is on the lookout for us.

  • DUSA President Declares DUSA Secretary General Impeachment Null & Void

    By Evelyne Syombua

    The Daystar University Students Association President Walter Nalwa on 25 October declared the impeachment of the DUSA Secretary General null and void.

    Walter Nalwa issued the communication via internal memo send to all students, Dean of Students, DUSA Congress Speaker Evans Owino, DUSA Congress among others.

    “DUSA Council appreciates critiue either positie or negatie. We highly appreciate issues including agcademics, welfare, co-curricular and extra-curricular. Dragging any other students into your personal, political feuds is uncalled for. However the Secretary General appeared before the congress and apologized for the uterances prior made,” stated the memo.
    The memo was send in response to the DUSA Congress communication on the impeachment of the DUSA Secretary General send on 24 October.

    DUSA President, Nalwa indictaed in the memo that Congress did not follow the process required, ”The congress leadership did not follow the due process under article 8.13 andi article 8.1c of the DUSA constitution before planning the alleged impeachment. I therefore urge the Congress leadership to be objective and put more focus uniting and not dividing whatsoever”.

    Nalwa appealed to his fellow leaders to take care of those under their charge. The fate of the DUSA Secretary General now lies in the hands of the two parties with each holding a different view on the matter.

  • DUSA Secretary General Desmond Mwyne Voted out of DUSA

    DUSA Secretary General Desmond Mwyne Voted out of DUSA

    By Evelyne Syombua Kioko

    The Daystar University Students Association(DUSA) Secretary General Desmond Mywne has been relieved of his duties as of today 24 October 2022.

    The communication was made by the office of the Speaker of Congress Evans Owino. Having failed to adhere to the values expected from him as a student leader in Daystar University and the DUSA Congress voting against him, Desmond Mwyne was declared unfit to hold the S.G position.

    The S.G had appeared before Congress for questioning on Tuesday 18 October regarding his alleged misconduct.  As detailed in the findings, the S.G had used his office in an abusive, vulgar, and demeaning manner in the Fun Day Whatsapp group forums.

    The replies were directed to students who had asked for clarification regarding payment for the Fun Day event that was held on 15th October and some took to complaining regarding the S.G via email to the office of the Dean of Students.

    One of the replies send read, ’’look kid if it feeds your emptiness go for it, if it makes you effective go for it, if it makes you irrelevant as you’ve always been GO FOR IT, if it makes you appreciated for go for it. You are who you are stop overselling you STUPIDITY here’’.

    The S.G also posted on his WhatsApp status and went as far to disrespect the constitution, ‘’ Wacha waendelee ku qute constitution like mad men… the law my ass, chapters my foot…’’ this ended his whatsapp status in which he had said the next students’ fun day event would be held in Bali.

    A student witness Ms Catherine Omondi who was a victim of the SG’s testified before the DUSA Congress.

    This marks the Second DUSA Council Member to be voted against by the DUSA Congress after the former DUSA Council Treasure was impeached last year 14 October 2021 by DUSA Congress 2021/22.

    The Electoral Commission of Daystar is hereby expected to conduct a by election according to the DUSA constitution.

     

     

     

  • Why Disney Should Be Stopped

    Why Disney Should Be Stopped

    (Photo courtesy of disney.com)

    By Nkatha Wainaina
    {nkathawainaina@gmail.com}

    Disney played an integral part in setting standards for animations for decades, and in a few years, a whole century. It has risen to unbelievable heights, owning half of Hollywood ( I’m not joking, Google the companies Disney owns). With all its might and prowess, Disney can’t seem to get a live-action remake right!

    A few weeks ago, a teaser for The Little Mermaid live-action movie was released. And it was a hit! Before I go on, you might be wondering what a live-action movie is. This is action in films involving real people or animals, as contrasted with animation or computer generated effects. And Disney has been on a roll making such movies, especially if the animation did really well.

    I can bet that barely a handful of serious Disney fans and self-proclaimed critics have watched the original movies. To make this observation as accurate and original as possible for you my dear reader, I have been taking a walk down memory lane, watching the original Disney movies from all the way back to the early 1900’s when Walt Disney was writing the stories himself! If you have a moment, you might want to check out those movies. The kind of production they were doing, with the kind of technology that was in existence then, mind blowing and you kind of understand why they have a monopoly in the industry today.

    Back to The Little Mermaid, it blew up the internet for one reason only. Ariel, the mermaid the movie is based on, is being played by Halle Bailey. Halle is an African American actress and singer. ‘Black Twitter’, (black users on twitter) could not contain their excitement. Regular Twitter ( white people) could also not suppress their dismay at Disney for casting a woman of colour for the role. And a war begun. Why am I telling you all this? I think The Little Mermaid live-action remake will be a bigger success than the other remakes because of only one reason, the black community will come out in numbers to support their own, and white people will show up to prove it was a bad idea casting a black woman.

    Looking at Disney’s track record for their remakes, is quite telling. The Lion King released in 2019 for one, is among the lowest ranked of the nineteen remakes even though it grossed 1.9 billion dollars in box offices. I wasn’t very invested in The Lion King. Apparently it was the biggest thing in the ‘90s next to Destiny’s Child and Tupac. Those who watched it then were mad at the live action remake. “They didn’t do the movie justice “, said one disappointed fan. Mulan also received negative reviews and people said ‘it lost the point of the original movie’. Cinderella has had countless remakes only two doing exceedingly well. I enjoyed The Beauty and the Beast, but people still had a problem with it. The list goes on and on from Aladdin, to the most recent Pinocchio, which was devastatingly bad. The only one which was spared from ridicule is The Jungle Book, which ranked highest at 94% according to Rotten Tomatoes with little negative reviews. What are the odds that the Disney live-action remake writers have figured out where they are going wrong and changed it in The Little Mermaid? And that is why Disney should be stopped.

    As much as people complain, we still go ahead and watch the remakes. Perhaps that’s what is keeping them going or the insane amounts of money they make. Who can tell for sure. This, however, is just a theory. The Little Mermaid might shock us.

  • THE DRUG THAT IS ONLINE SHOPPING

    THE DRUG THAT IS ONLINE SHOPPING

    {Photo courtesy of Kaspersky}

    By Nkatha Wainaina
    (nkathawainaina@gmail.com)

    Online shopping, the sweet and sour borderline addiction that might lead me to probable bankruptcy.
    Remember the good old days when we would walk into a shop, survey what was on display, look at the items from all angles possible, bargaining to a price that even you know is a little too low because your mother taught you well, then finally taking it home with you? Aah simpler times.
    Yes. I know the argument. Online shopping has made things so much easier and literally brings convenience to your doorstep (Someone should use that as a tagline for a delivery app. Call me for more marketing ideas). And I concur. For indecisive people, people who don’t like going outside unless they really have to, or those who don’t like the hustle and bustle of a market place, this has been a life saver. However, are the repercussions worth it?

    I had refused to give into pressure from all the advertisements on my social media pages. Clearly, I gave in. If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t be writing this. I remember the first item I bought online. It was a lovely peach top that I thought could be worn on different occasions. If you haven’t seen how many shops advertise clothes, let me break it down for you. They fold tops at the bottom to form a v-shape, so you can’t really see how the bottom looks like or estimate where it would reach. Dresses are pinched at the waist to give a symmetrical shape. This is the most deceiving and slightly annoying thing out there. So my beautiful peach top turned out to be a crop top. This would not have been such a problem if I wore crop tops. It took me a whole year before I finally got the courage to wear it.

    They say two times are enough to learn not to repeat a mistake. I’m afraid my dear reader, this has gone on far beyond two times. I got a stunning black and white checked dress that had rust stains on the white parts. The page, regardless of having thousands of followers, ignored my complaint and refused to reimburse me.

    I bought an oversized dress that now sits patiently in my closet, waiting for me to get pregnant so that I can wear it as a maternity dress. I must get my money’s worth!

    I walked around Nairobi looking a for a shop that was advertising good looking leather boots for a suspiciously low price, only for the shop to turn out to be a front for coning gullible ladies with an eye for gorgeous boots. I am glad I hadn’t paid for them yet! My sister bought a cupcake baking tin from an overseas shop for a price that was so low she couldn’t let the opportunity slide. The baking tin surely did arrive, but it was part of a child’s plastic play set.

    These are all experiences I have witnessed first hand and yet I can’t stop buying things online. I mean, the experiences aren’t all bad. I have gotten a couple of decent purchases online.

    In the age of mobile banking, we have access to all the money we have and don’t have at the palm of our hands. This gives me the impression that I can buy whatever I want, whenever I want. This is a problem because when I log into my social media accounts, the algorithm ensures I see new items that I would like based on my previous post interactions. This is why I’m worried that my guilty pleasure will make me bankrupt.

    Send me tips on how I can control this. At least I have the first step to recovery down. Acceptance right?

  • ‘HUSTLER’ CSs WORTH SH 6BN

    ‘HUSTLER’ CSs WORTH SH 6BN

    {Photo courtesy of Victor Matara}

    By Nicole Waweru

    (Email: wanjirunicole28@gmail.com)

    On Monday 17, October, the selection parliamentary committee began vetting President William Ruto’s Cabinet nominees. The nominees are; Musalia Mudavadi, the former Amani National Congress (ANC) leader with a net worth of ksh.4 billion, Justin Muturi, former speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya with a net worth of ksh.700million, Aden Duale, Garissa Township Member of Parliament (MP) with a net worth of ksh.851 million, Alfred Mutua, the former Governor of Machakos County with a net worth of kshs.420 million, and Alice Wahome, the MP of Kandara in Murang’a County with ksh.218 million.

    Shock hit Kenyans after the immeasurable wealth of these nominees was revealed in Parliament, this sparked a conversation on Twitter as many Kenyans said that the politics in Kenya is very remunerative. In as much as some had worn the lens of ‘politics being lucrative,’ others had however accredited their wealth to corruption, which is still not a surprise. Some were questioned about their past encounters with corruption scandals like Mudavadi, who was asked about the Goldenberg and Nairobi Cemetery land scams. For the Goldenberg scandal, he told the committee that he inherited the scam at the Treasury at its tail end and some of the transactions were unknown to him whereas, for the Nairobi Cemetery land scam, he said he faced a politically instigated investigation by the then Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, (KACC) and in the end, the culprits were caught and jailed.

    Looking at the wealth attained by these Cabinet nominees, we can see that their wealth is also constituted by separate and individual ventures that they carry out outside of politics. For example, one of the nominees, Justin Muturi, says that his income comes from the pension he is earning after serving as a speaker of the National Assembly for ten years, from farming and legal consultancy. He also added that his property was acquired through bank loans and a civil servant stipend for the last 36 years of his career.

    The vetting and nomination process in Kenya is seen to be very orderly, the 12th Parliament amended the Public Approval and Parliamentary Approval Act 2011, to increase the vetting period from 14 days to 28 days. According to research from Mutai, (2022), once the Committee on Appointments receives the list of the Cabinet nominees, the clerk will be required to issue a public notice asking Kenyans with representations to submit memoranda on the nominees. With the nomination process in Kenya, once the Parliament completes the vetting which is set to end by Saturday 2:30 pm, the clerk will notify the President of the decision made within seven days of the decision. Article 152 (1) of the Constitution says the Cabinet includes the President, the Deputy President, and the Attorney-General, and not fewer than 14 and not more than 22 Cabinet Secretaries.So, the question that has been the talk on all social media handles is, “Is politics profitable?” My answer to this is yes. It is no doubt that the Members of Parliament (MPs) in Kenya are amongst the highest paid in the world relative to the size of the economy. Parliament seats are one of the most coveted positions in Kenya this is supported by the holder’s wealth and social ranking. In the years before, there has been an evident trend of those in high senior private sectors leaving, in quest of more laid-back political offices.

    As the ongoing vetting goes on, we hope that these nominees are very passionate about what they are fighting for right now, and when they are appointed, they will stick to their word and do fulfill all the promises that they have made. Their words are on record and I am sure many Kenyans will want to see them be true to their word.