Oscar Award winner Lupita Amondi Nyong’o was moved to tears by a poem on insecurity in Kenya. The theme of the choral verse, narrated in her native Dholuo dialect, by pupils from Mariwa Primary School highlighted the loss of lives due to terrorist attacks, according to a report in the Nation.
The story line of the ‘Magenga’ follows a young man who promised to build her mother a house but was killed by terrorist.
Excerpts:
You had the ambition of being a doctor.
Why did you die before putting on the graduation gown?
Why did they kill you before you build me a nice house that you promised?
Why the insecurity in the country,” the children sung.
Ms Nyongo together with her mother, Mrs Dorothy Nyong’o, wept in public. Kenya has been on the global spotlight over rising insecurity, especially terrorism which started with the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi which left more than 200 people killed and over 3,000 injured.
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Ever since terror attacks have become a regular phenomenon in the country, with terror groups linked to Al-Qaeda targeting the public, key establishments and churches. The latest attack was the Garrisa University attack where 146 people were killed.
The actress who won an Oscar for her role in the movie 12 Years A Slave last year was visiting her Seme home in Kisumu County for a session to mentor young girls.
She encouraged the girls to struggle with their identity so they achieve what they want to be in life.
“Differences make us the same than nothing else, do not lose sense of who you are while struggling to retain your identity,” she said. “Education should embrace the arts to help us express ourselves better. “It doesn’t matter where you come from but where you going. Work towards making a change to the world and you would be known,” she said.
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