1. Wanuri Kahiu has received multipe awards and nominations including for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Picture at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2009 for her dramatic feature film From a Whisper.
18 Facts About Wanuri Kahiu
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Wanuri Kahiu is the co-founder of AFROBUBBLEGUM, a media collective dedicated to supporting African art for its own sake.
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In 2025 Wanuri Kahiu served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Dramatic competition category, alongside Ava Cahen and Daniel Kaluuya.
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Wanuri Kahiu first became enamored with filmmaking when exposed to an editing studio when she was sixteen.
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Wanuri Kahiu attended the University of Warwick in England and received a BSc degree in Management science.
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In 2003 Kahiu began her filmmaking career interning for the American director and producer F Gary Gray's on The Italian Job.
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In 2006, Wanuri Kahiu made her directing debut with the behind-the-scenes documentary The Spark that Unites about the making of Catch a Fire directed by Phillip Noyce.
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Wanuri Kahiu remembers her mother treating several patients who were the victims of the bombing.
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Homosexuality in Africa has long been debated, but Wanuri Kahiu tells Olivier Barlet that homophobia is not of the spirit of Ubuntu since it marginalizes people in the community.
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Above all, Wanuri Kahiu finished her interview with Olivier Barlet by saying that she hopes the upcoming film will portray a "normal love story" that acknowledges the heroic challenges of choosing a "difficult love".
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Wanuri Kahiu goes on to lament how unfortunate it is "that sometimes that when two people are in love, the moment that you change the gender and the race of the people in love, it becomes increasingly political" and that is all audiences and critics tend to see.
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Wanuri Kahiu refused to change the ending, which resulted in the film being banned.
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Wanuri Kahiu is set to direct the film, which will be produced by Gigi Pritzker and Rachel Shane of MWM Studios, Bruna Papandrea, and Reese Witherspoon.
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Wanuri Kahiu is among writers who will be working on the adaptation of Octavia Butler novel, Wild Seed into a film, in a project by Amazon.
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Wanuri Kahiu engages with Africanfuturism, both in her artistic creation and as inspiration.
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Contemporarily, Wanuri Kahiu has identified Africanfuturism as one that undergoes a postcolonial reclamation of its own timelines, narratives, and spaces.
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Wanuri Kahiu has critiqued the ways in which Non Governmental Organizations control the popular imagination of Africa.
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Wanuri Kahiu situates her work as a filmmaker making films about Africa to combat these images.