Daystar is a Christian liberal arts university in Nairobi. Daystar's original campus is close to Nairobi city centre, but there was no room to expand at that location. Therefore, in 1992 a new campus was built at Athi River, some 40 km to the south-east of the city, on the Mombasa Road which became the main campus. History Daystar’s story began with an American couple making a decision to become missionaries in South Africa. Towards the end of October 1952, the newly married couple - Don and Faye Smith - sailed to Cape Town, South Africa to teach at the Evangelical Teacher Training College. Dr Motsoko Pheko was a co-founder of Daystar University. Then in 1956, four years after they arrived, the South African government took over all mission schools. This included the college where the Smiths worked. Consequently, Don and Faye were commissioned to develop Christian literature for evangelising as appointees of the South African General Mission (SAGM) Board Proprietor of the Natal College. Don became the head of all SAGM literature work and the couple moved to the SAGM Mission Headquarters in Roodepoort, Transvaal, a suburb of Johannesburg where they began a publishing house called the Africa Christian Literature Advance (ACLA). From the outset, Don’s aim was to train African workers to handle much of the work – writing, artwork and the like. So they started out with only four workers – the Smiths and two African alumni of the Evangelical Teacher Training College (ETTC). One of their first publications was Our Africa, a monthly Christian magazine launched in September 1958. The African team members - Earnest Pheko and Edmund Khumalo – played an integral role in the planning. Pheko was one of the first African officers whom Don trained and he later became the magazine’s managing editor. Unfortunately, five years after the launch, on April 4, 1963, he was arrested by the South African authorities and accused of working against the white government. In the next year, after Pheko was released, he and Don began a Christian literature publishing house which they called Daystar Publications. They wanted it to be more Afrocentric than mission-controlled. Pheko was in charge because Don travelled so much, and he was the one who came up with the name ‘Daystar’. In an interview, he recalled how he came up with it. “I read the Bible and of course I also grew up