Monday, 21 November 2016



                                        Annual International Festival.



From left to right, Kenyan students, Simon Muturi Mburu, Avid Mohammadi(Both Electrical Engineering), Cromwell Kebenei (Industrial Engineering and International Management) and Moses Githinji (Mechanical Engineering) 




During the annual International festival of University of Applied Sciences Rheinmain,
the students used the opportunity to show case the rest of the world the already underway as well as upcoming projects in the East African country that will be very beneficial to the citizens in the near future.

Geothermal Power, the Standard Gauge Railway for instance are among the Projects the Students presented on this day. Beside the Project, they also took the opportunity to share their culture, the Kenyan cuisine and also, thanks to the Kenyan Embassy in Germany, they managed give an insight into the Kenyan tourism Industry. The students believe if Kenyans students abroad participated in such events at their various Universities, it would be a win-win situation for those interested in Kenya or the African culture in general. Their biggest dream is to extend their connection back home and create many partner Universities from Germany to Kenya and vice-versa since connection creates opportunity and opportunity is what many young career-seeking enthusiasts fondly require in Kenya.

Many thanks to Hochschule Rheinmain, ASTA and the Office of the International Students for offering such opportunities and support.

(Copyright: Moses Githinji)

Wednesday, 9 November 2016

A Terrible Beauty has been Born
She was met at close of day
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Tangled by a dead fall of hopelessness
Changes minute by minute
Of shrill voices in the horizon
Broken glasses on the floor
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Of a mocking tale or a gibe
Cracked sink full of crockery
Moist, disregarded and undone
A cheap art it seems
A terrible beauty has been born

She was met at close of day
From dawn to dusk a haste
Of endless contention and dissonance
Ugly conniption of oral aggression
Tim and Hannah yearned for
In ignorant good-will
A transition from beauty to the beast
The dusty CD on the shelf
Its memory lane distinctly inevitable
Of songs played without the lyrics
A terrible beauty has been born

She was met at close of day
As she scribbled her pen on paper
A history of conceived misapprehension
No more Easters and recited poetry
Or lullabies in the cold winter nights
Of valid hopes and dreams
A nod of the head for the drum beats
Of undivided, polite meaningless words
Her broken scathed limbs unendurable
Too long a sacrifice for freedom

A terrible beauty has been born.