Wanuri Kahiu Biography

Wanuri Kahiu is a filmmaker and the co-founder of a media firm that promotes, develops, and commissions humorous, aggressive, and frivolous African art. Kahiu has garnered several honors and nominations for her films, including Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Picture at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2009. Her films have also been screened at film festivals all around the world. Kahiu has included Afrofuturism into her artistic production as well as the inspiration for her work, aiming for a uniquely African flavor in her approach to the subculture. Kahiu has argued that African peoples and cultures have been participating in Afrofuturistic thought for millennia, if not longer, by drawing on the depth, force, and history of African myths, spiritualities, and naturalisms. Kahiu has criticized how Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) influence Africa's public imagination. According to Kahiu, these representations recreate Africa as the Other. To oppose these notions, Kahiu situates her work as a filmmaker creating films about Africa.

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