Podcasts about Wanuri Kahiu

As the sun sets over Africa, we spotlight Wanuri Kahiu, the bold visionary from Nairobi rewriting the future with Afrofuturism, joy, and unapologetic African storytelling. From Pumzi to Afrobubblegum, discover how she dares to dream, direct, and disrupt.Tales by Sundown: African Stories By Africans.

Michael Druck is one of the leading Casting Directors in Texas for over a decade. Michael Druck Casting provides Principal and Extras Casting for Film, Television, Commercial, New Media, and offers casting throughout Texas and Los Angeles, and coast to coast. Notable film directors he has worked with include: RICHARD LINKLATER, NIA DACOSTA, and WANURI KAHIU. Commercially he has cast over 500+ advertisements including WAL-MART, COCA COLA, BURGER KING, MCDONALDS, CHASE BANK and many other Fortune 500 companies. He quickly gained a reputation for casting leads in award winning independent narrative films as well as location and extras casting for studio films and television. Michael is a proud member of the CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA and volunteers for many programs geared towards Diverse Casting Initiatives and for the LGBTQIA+ Community. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ MICHAEL DRUCK ⌲ IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2373742/ ⌲ IG: https://www.instagram.com/michaeldruckcasting/?hl=en ⌲ Website: https://michaeldruckcasting.com/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ The Moving Spotlight Podcast ⌲ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moving-spotlight/id1597207264 ⌲ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7cjqYAWSFXz2hgCHiAjy27 ⌲ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themovingspotlight ⌲ ALL: https://linktr.ee/themovingspotlight ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ #Casting #TexasCasting #RisaBramonGarcia #TheAffair #RichardLinklater #WalMart #CocaCola #BurgerKing #Emmys #TVTime #iTunes #Actor #ActorsLife #Believe #Success #Inspiration #Netflix #Hulu #Amazon #HBO #AppleTV #Showtime #Acting #Artist #Theatre #Film #YourBestBadActing #Content #CorbinCoyle #JohnRuby #RealFIREacting #TMS_Pod --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-moving-spotlight/support

The Dames wrap up Pride Month with a look at three great films about lesbians. First, it's the very sexy Bound (1996) from the Wachowskis. Then we chat about Rafiki, Wanuri Kahiu's 2018 coming-of-age story that was banned in her home country of Kenya. And finally, Rose Glass's newest film, Love Lies Bleeding (2024), starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian.

If you Google, ‘African film' and ‘sex,' you largely find articles about sexual violence. But, why are our lives being portrayed this way?   Enter Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu. It's her ‘life mission' to show African sexuality on film, as she does in ‘Rafiki,' a beautiful lesbian love story that is banned in her home country.  “In every project, I truly try to figure out what does it mean to show tenderness and love? What does it mean to show sensuality for us?” In a wide-ranging chat about creativity, tradition, patriarchy and pleasure, Wanuri also shares the hot African film moment that set her on this path, and why it matters. The Adventures From the Bedrooms of African Women Podcast is a production of AQ Studios in partnership with Masi Media. Selly Thiam is the AQ Studios CEO and Mercy Githaiga is our operations manager, Frederica Boswell is the senior producer, audio editors are Tevin Sudi and Mercy Barno and Lucas Ngao is our social media manager. Our theme music is Damn by Ria Boss and music from this episode comes from Epidemic sounds. Find Adventures From the Bedrooms of African Women anywhere you get your podcasts, and in pursuing all things sex, sexuality, and pleasure, follow us on all our social media platforms @adventuresfrom. Engage with us on: Instagram Our website  

BC and Anton discuss Pan-African storytelling, Idris Elba's Sherbro Island City, and the upcoming book from author and artivist, Nikkolas Smith. *Information about the comments made by Lesley Lokko and Wanuri Kahiu can be found here.

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Three “man-dimes” who review movies, products…and each other's personal misfortunes. A raucous show every Tuesday digs deep into the Dime's daily life antics. Listen as the Dimes recount stories of drunken nights, family life, and everything in between as their counterparts take stabs where it hurts the most. Thursdays are back to business with weekly movie reviews based on the 3 Dimes Scale. At the conclusion of each season, the Dime with the least “common cents” will be punished…3 Dimes Reviews – Worth Every Cent.Look Both Ways is a 2022 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Wanuri Kahiu and written by April Prosser. It stars Lili Reinhart, Luke Wilson, Andrea Savage, Aisha Dee, Danny Ramirez, David Corenswet, and Nia Long. The film was released on August 17, 2022, on Netflix.[

Look Both Ways - a 2022 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Wanuri Kahiu and written by April Prosser.  It's a VERY similar premise to Sliding Doors… 1998… Gwenyth Paltrow if you're familiar? This is the story of Natalie Benett played by Lili Reinhart from Riverdale. Life brings all of us, singular moments that can change the entire trajectory of our existence. This film is really a tale of one of these moments, Natalie Benett is a University Senior, has one fantastic night hooking up with her best friend Gabe played by Danny Ramirez… and then we are at a crossroads. There is one version of reality where Natalie gets pregnant after that fateful night… her and Gabe must move back to her hometown, in with her parents and PARENT this new child… another version of reality is Natalie moving off to Los Angeles to become an aspiring animator under Lucy Galloway, played by Nia Long. She also moves their with her other friend Cara played by Aisha Dee and meets love interest Jake played by David Corenswet. We see both of these parallel universes play out almost side by side over the next 5 years… with her entire life diverging at this point… how differently will her life end up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're so used to narratives out of Africa being about war, poverty and devastation, says TED Fellow Wanuri Kahiu. Where's the fun? Introducing "AfroBubbleGum" -- African art that's vibrant, lighthearted and without a political agenda. Rethink the value of all that is unserious as Kahiu explains why we need art that captures the full range of human experiences to tell the stories of Africa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're so used to narratives out of Africa being about war, poverty and devastation, says TED Fellow Wanuri Kahiu. Where's the fun? Introducing "AfroBubbleGum" -- African art that's vibrant, lighthearted and without a political agenda. Rethink the value of all that is unserious as Kahiu explains why we need art that captures the full range of human experiences to tell the stories of Africa.

Rebels! We enjoyed "August Abroad" so much, we're keeping it going into September...I guess it's "Autumn Abroad now!" Join us as we welcome back Joanna Johnson, aka Unlearn16, for the review of the Kenyan-banned lesbian film "Rafiki" (2018) "Rafiki" (2018) Written and directed by Wanuri Kahiu. Starring Samantha Mugatsia, and Sheila Munyiva. "Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.Hear this episode early on Patreon!  http://patreon.com/rwacpodRWACpod on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rwacpodRebelWear Merch Store: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/RWACshopFollow on IG:  @RWACpodWhere to find the Rebels:Stefan: @sjmaroni on IGBearSailorMoon: @bearsailormooonon all social mediaCarlotta Carlisle: @carlottacarlisle on IG / Carlotta1987 on RedBubbleChad: @cski01 on IGJulia: @julialynched on IGPJ: @xndra_design on IGStu: @janikon_ on IG & TikTokSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/rwacpod)Support the show

This week we watched Rafiki (2018), directed by Wanuri Kahiu. If you're anything like us and this movie has been on your watch list forever, bump it to the top! Claire reveled in getting to watch such a nuanced and beautifully shot film, and Haley almost went rage blind when a reviewer compared this movie to Love, Simon.

Wanuri Kahiu is a Kenyan-born storyteller who has made it her mission to produce creative work that fills voids in traditional African films. While we'll let her tell you why she calls her genre “Afro Bubblegum”, her awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Picture at the Africa Movie Academy Awards are testaments to her creative prowess. But don't let the “bubblegum” fool you. Her films have sparked unexpected controversy and dug deep into some of the truths about African culture that often go unspoken, and extend far beyond the continent to truths we share worldwide. 

Hoy conversamos sobre la película keniana "Rafiki" (2018) dirigida por Wanuri Kahiu. Acompañanos en nuestras reflexiones, críticas, contradicciones, comedias, dispersiones y más junto a @_Sgniward_ehs y @belencito_ .

Episode 81 of the podcast provides an introductory survey of Sub-Saharan African animation, as Chris and Alex plot a pathway through a cross-section of animated fantasies covering a multitude of forms, styles and modes from a number of African countries and territories. Joining them is Dr Paula Callus, Associate Professor in Computer Animation at Bournemouth University and an expert in Sub-Saharan African animation, who has also worked as a consultant and educator on the UNESCO Africa Animated projects in Kenya and South Africa, and who has been involved in projects looking at marginalization and the use of digital technologies (with a focus upon Arts, Activism and Marginalization in Nairobi). Listen as they discuss Moustapha Alassane's Bon Voyage Sim (1966), the earliest short animation from West Africa with a highly political (and amphibious) comic narrative; the quasi-animated documentary Ng'endo Mukii's Yellow Fever (2013) that interrogates the implications of skin and race via the theme of hair braiding; Iwa (2009) from Nigerian filmmaker, illustrator and art director Kenneth (Shofela) Coker based on West African ‘tree of life' myths; the colourful British/Kenyan animated television series Tinga Tinga Tales (2010-2012) based on African folktales and featuring both English and Swahili languages; and the science-fiction allegory Pumzi (2009) from writer and director Wanuri Kahiu. Topics include the cultural and historical specificity of fantasy storytelling and the mapping and remapping of folklore across national borders; animation as itself a medium wrought with competing ‘contexts' shaping modes of production and reception; core/periphery models of understanding global animation practices and their diversity of visual cultures and heritages; post-colonial legacies and how questions of pastness guide how African animation has been culturally and critically understood; Afrofuturism, Afropessimism and animation's aesthetics of despair; and how fantasy and animation are systematic tools for the subjective on account of their shared ‘immateriality'.

Joy As Resistance: It's a curious feature of autocratic regimes that forms of joy are usually banned. We explore how democratic governments in Africa are continuing in that same tradition. In this weeks episode we speak to Wanuri Kahiu a Kenyan Film Director and founder of AfroBubblegum whose film about same sex love, Rafiki (2018) was banned in Kenya. Podcast Credits Think African is brought to you in cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation and African Arguments. Graphics and Artwork: Neo Rakgajane Script/story Editing: Rasmus Bitsch Sound Editing: John Bartmann Additional Sound Recording: Carl Odera Soundtrack/Music: The Good People Writer/Host: Jedi Ramalapa

Christopher Nolan is tegenwoordig één van de grootste en invloedrijkste filmmakers ter wereld, maar in 1999 is hij nog een complete nobody als hij op IFFR de Tiger Award wint met zijn debuutfilm Following. Cesar gaat op zoek naar Nolan om hem te vragen hoe hij terugkijkt op die ervaring. Ook spreekt hij de talentvolle Keniase filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu, die in 2018 de internationale filmwereld veroverde met haar prachtige liefdesdrama Rafiki. IFFR speelde een onmisbare rol in haar carrière. Ook al is ze nog nooit op het festival geweest. Voor bonusmateriaal bij deze aflevering: vprogids.nl/50jaariffr Following (1999): https://www.vprogids.nl/cinema/films/film~510271~following~.html Rafiki (2018): https://www.vprogids.nl/cinema/films/film~12966637~rafiki~.html

Are you interested in getting your writing published? Do you want tips and tricks on how to become a published author of Africanfuturistic novels or short stories? Or learn how to self-publish in the genre? Then join us for a panel discussion and Q&A on how the genre reflects the societal and cultural struggles of African people and their descendants here and abroad. Come along on a journey to explore how to get this type of work published in a world where black and brown people are still seen as the “other”. Panelists include: Nnedi Okorafor, Jalynn Harris, Saida Agostini, and Afua Richardson. Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian-American author of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism for children and adults. Her works include WHO FEARS DEATH (in development at HBO into a TV series), the BINTI novella trilogy, THE BOOK OF PHOENIX, the AKATA books and LAGOON. She is the winner of Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus and Lodestar Awards and her debut novel ZAHRAH THE WINDSEEKER won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature. Her next novel, IKENGA, will be in stores August 2020. Nnedi has also written comics for Marvel, including BLACK PANTHER: LONG LIVE THE KING and WAKANDA FOREVER (featuring the Dora Milaje) and the SHURI series, an Africanfuturist comic series LAGUARDIA (from Dark Horse) and her short memoir BROKEN PLACES AND OUTER SPACES. Nnedi is also cowriter the adaptation of Octavia Butler’s WILD SEED with Viola Davis and Kenyan film director Wanuri Kahiu. Nnedi holds a PhD (literature) and two MAs (journalism and literature). She lives with her daughter Anyaugo and family in Illinois. Saida Agostini is a queer Afro-Guyanese poet whose work explores the ways that Black folks harness mythology to enter the fantastic. Saida’s poetry is featured and/or forthcoming in Plume, Barrelhouse Magazine, the Black Ladies Brunch Collective's anthology, Not Without Our Laughter, amongst other publications. Her first collection of poems, just let the dead in, was a finalist for the Center of African American Poetry & Poetics’ 2020 Book Prize, as well as the New Issues Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, STUNT (Neon Hemlock Press, October 2020) explores the history of Nellie Jackson, a Black woman entrepreneur who operated a brothel for sixty years in Natchez, Mississippi. A Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and Pushcart Prize nominee, Saida has been awarded honors and support for her work by the Watering Hole and Blue Mountain Center, as well as a 2018 Rubys Grant funding travel to Guyana to support the completion of her first manuscript. She lives online at saidaagostini.com Jalynn Harris is a poet, educator, and book designer from Baltimore, MD. She founded SoftSavagePress for the sole purpose of promoting visual and literary works by Black people. She earned her MFA from the University of Baltimore, where she was the inaugural recipient of Michael F. Klein fellowship for social justice. Her work has been featured in Transition Magazine, Little Patuxent Review, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Exit Thru the Afro, queer museum in verse, is her first poetry chapbook. Recorded On: Thursday, February 18, 2021

Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala (a podcast from TED) is a journey across the globe in search of the world's most surprising and imaginative ideas. In this episode, Saleem Reshamwala explores AfroBubbleGum, an art movement from Nairobi, Kenya, that challenges the narratives often seen about Africa as limited to war, poverty and devastation. But sharing this joyous art is no frivolous task — it can even mean having your work banned. See why AfroBubbleGum faces opposition and what artists, like filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu, are willing to do to fight for it. Also featuring an interview and music from "Blinky" Bill Sellanga. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cet épisode de JINS est corollaire à l’épisode précédent où j’étais en compagnie d'Abdellah Taïa pour parler d’amours charnelles et d’érotisme dans la littérature, en particulier par l’étude des genres et des différentes sexualités des personnages. Il est crucial de ne pas adopter un point de vue uniquement masculin dans l’analyse déjà assez inédite de l’homosexualité, de l’arabité et de l’islamité en France, pour mieux la croiser  avec une vision féminine. Je le rappelle en guise d’introduction, le Saint Coran ne fait jamais mention de l’homosexualité féminine. Et encore moins d’une quelconque condamnation.  Alors pour vous les femmes, lesbiennes ou bi, cis ou trans, racisées ou non, croyantes ou non ; pour comprendre la dose de patriarcat qui agit dans votre identité plurielle ; on va essayer d’élucider à quel point ces aspérités identitaires ont été abordées par des artistes, des cinéastes et des écrivaines du monde arabe ou des communautés arabo-musulmanes de France.    C'est avec un grand plaisir que j'accueille une jeune femme de 25 ans qui a ému la France entière en 2020, c’est Fatima DAAS. Pour la présenter, rien de mieux que sa propre présentation, tirée de l’incipit de son roman qui a fait sensation La petite dernière.  "Je m’appelle Fatima Daas. Je suis la mazoziya, la petite dernière. Celle à laquelle on ne s’est pas préparé. Française d’origine algérienne. Musulmane pratiquante. Clichoise qui passe plus de trois heures par jour dans les transports. Une touriste. Une banlieusarde qui observe les comportements parisiens."     Si vous voulez bouquiner

Cette semaine, le "Portrait de femme au cinéma" est consacré à l'actrice et réalisatrice française et sénégalaise Mati Diop. Elle est la première femme noire retenue en compétition à Cannes avec son film Atlantique en 2019 et a reçu le Grand prix du Jury. Margot vous présente aussi sa dernière découverte ciné : Rafiki de Wanuri Kahiu. Et puis, des découvertes musicales sans oublier l'actu culturelle en bref. Son du jour : Floyd Shikam - Chambre noire

The Trip's five episodes from the heroic city of Nairobi start strong with a rum dawa and a conversation with iconic Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu. Show notes: Announcement of Wanuri Kahiu’s upcoming feature adaption of The Hate U Give Rafiki trailer  TEDx Wanuri Kahiu talk Kenya Supreme Court Anti-Homosexuality Ruling Hajooj Kuka’s documentary Beats of the Antonov  Afrobubblegum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trip's five episodes from the heroic city of Nairobi start strong with a rum dawa and a conversation with iconic Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu. Show notes: Announcement of Wanuri Kahiu’s upcoming feature adaption of The Hate U Give Rafiki trailer  TEDx Wanuri Kahiu talk Kenya Supreme Court Anti-Homosexuality Ruling Hajooj Kuka’s documentary Beats of the Antonov  Afrobubblegum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For our third mission, the Cinenauts will take a journey to Kenya to discuss Wanuri Kahiu's 2018 LGBTQ+ indie darling 'Rafiki'. Also discussed in this episode: Boom's ruling on 'The Trial of the Chicago 7', Dave Chappelle's SNL monologue and where our next mission will take us. Follow Cinenauts on social media: Twitter Instagram Send us a voicemail or email: cinenautspod@gmail.com

Filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu joins us from Nairobi to discuss her internationally acclaimed film RAFIKI (2018) alongside Mélanie Laurent's intense BREATHE (2014). Catch Wanuri on TCM's "Women Make Movies" series on October 13. Follow us @filmandmoviepod on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods.RAFIKI is streaming on Criterion Channel: https://www.criterionchannel.com/rafikiBREATHE is streaming on Kanopy: https://kanopy.com/video/breatheWanuri recommends LES ADOPTÉS: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2004279/referenceAlonso recommends LITTLE DARLINGS https://www.amazon.com/Little-Darlings-Tatum-ONeal/dp/B0026W9NJE/?tag=alonsoduralde-20 and GOD LOVES UGANDA https://kanopy.com/video/god-loves-uganda

This week, Catherine and Maddie dive head first into the 2018 Kenyan drama film, Rafiki (meaning ‘friend’ in Swahili), directed by upcoming superstar, Wanuri Kahiu. This classic coming-of-age story about star-crossed lesbians falling in love was the subject of a lot of backlash for portraying homosexuality without remorse and was banned by the Kenya Film Classification Board, but we think it marks the beginning of a new age in Kenyan cinema. Join us for a conversation about mixed reviews, western supremacy, and African art. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/queerpressurepc/support

This week, Desmond gets into the first Queer film AND the first African film on the show, RAFIKI! The journey through this award winning hidden gem includes Desmond’s thoughts on how Kenyan culture is similar to certain aspects of Black culture in the U.S., as well as the brilliant and vibrant color scheme employed by the director, Wanuri Kahiu. Also, Desmond puts you on to two other hidden gems that also focus on Queer Black women in this week’s ‘Trust and Believe’ and ‘You Betta Act’ segments!

The sun will rain with this door to door service! To round off Pride Month, we cover the 2018 film, Rafiki. Quid Pro Mo brought to you by Thanks for Coming Podcast.Tasty links below...Site: https://fyrpodcast.comApple: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/for-your-reference/id1453532214Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ForYourReferenceTwitter: https://twitter.com/ForYourRefPodInsta: https://www.instagram.com/foryourrefpodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6oOmo_3tzdD0VtBzt2d0JA

Fun, fierce and frivolous: AfroBubbleGum is an art movement from Nairobi, Kenya, that challenges the narratives often seen about Africa as limited to war, poverty and devastation. But sharing this joyous art is no frivolous task — it can even mean having your work banned. See why AfroBubbleGum faces opposition and what artists, like filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu, are willing to do to fight for it. Also featuring an interview and music from "Blinky" Bill Sellanga. We're doing a survey! If you have a minute, please take it at surveynerds.com/pindrop. It really helps make the show better.

Esse programa pega carona no clima de Dia dos Namorados, mas é também de celebração do Orgulho LGBTI, que se comemora no dia 28 de junho. Conversamos sobre o filme queniano Rafiki (2018), que foi selecionado pra mostra Um Certo Olhar e indicado à Palma Queer no Festival de Cannes e é baseado em um conto de Monica Arac de Nyeko, estrelado por Sheila Munyiva e Samantha Mugatsia, dirigido por Wanuri Kahiu, que também o roteirizou com Jenna Cato Bass. Ele trata de duas adolescentes, filhas de adversários políticos, que se apaixonam e foi banido no Quênia, país em que o relacionamento entre pessoas do mesmo gênero é criminalizado. O programa é apresentado por Isabel Wittmann, Stephania Amaral com participação da crítica de cinema Yasmine Evaristo, do Entrando Numa Fria, Clube da Poltrona e Culturemos. Oferecimento: Telecine, assine para testar: https://bit.ly/2xtAePt Mais informações: https://feitoporelas.com.br/feito-por-elas-112-rafiki Feedback: contato@feitoporelas.com.br Pesquisa, pauta e roteiro: Isabel Wittmann, Stephania Amaral e Yasmine Evaristo Produção e edição: Isabel Wittmann Arte da capa: Amanda Menezes http://www.behance.net/tupiguarana Vinheta: Felipe Ayres Locução da vinheta: Deborah Garcia (deh.gbf@gmail.com) Música de encerramento: Bad Ideas - Silent Film Dark de Kevin MacLeod está licenciada sob uma licença Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Origem: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100489 Artista: http://incompetech.com/ Assine nosso Padrim http://www.padrim.com.br/feitoporelas Assine nosso Patreon http://www.patreon.com/feitoporelas

The award-winning science fiction author Nnedi Okorafor always has a project - or three - on the go. From her home outside Chicago she creates stories driven by what she describes as Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism for children and adults - a legacy of her Nigerian roots. Her work now ranges across comics for Marvel, screenplays and yet another new novel due out in the summer. But she wasn’t always destined to be a writer. She spent her youth training hard to be a top class athlete until she developed curvature of the spine, which put an end to her dreams. After corrective surgery she became temporarily paralysed and it was then, during her darkest time, that she began to create stories. Now, as Chicago, like the rest of the US endures lockdown, Nnedi’s been adapting to her changed life and restricted movements. Mark Burman talks to her about her work and how her creative process has been affected during the Covid-19 pandemic. During recordings made in April and early May he eavesdrops on some of her writing moments including her fruitful collaboration with the Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu and their story of an A.I. traffic police robot – and hears about the therapeutic distraction of her trumpet-playing daughter and magnificent cat which now has his own Twitter account!

Writer/director Wanuri Kahiu lives in Kenya, takes meetings in LA, and makes movies for the world.  Here she gives her inspiring take on writing adaptations, directing actors and the need for “fun and frivolous” stories about African culture.

Esha and Kristen discuss the Kenyan sci-fi film, PUMZI, set in Africa 35 years in the future after World War III, the water war. East African survivors of the ecological devastation remain locked away in contained communities... Pumzi (Swahili for "breath*) was written/directed by Wanuri Kahiu. It was screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of its New African Cinema program. Originally released Oct 21, 2009 Find it on youtube: https://youtu.be/IlR7l_B86Fc Music by Moon Apple (moonapplemusic.com / IG @moonapplexx / Album -Myth Maker~Dream Destroyer - on Bandcamp)

Hi everyone! Welcome back to our continuing series Under the Kanopy, featuring critically acclaimed, if not commercially successful film offerings on Kanopy, a public library and university funded streaming service. All it takes is a library card and you’ll get six free streams per month from a collection of classic and contemporary films, with agreements with The Criterion Channel, A24, Kino Lorber, and many more of your favorite independent producers and distributors. For a few other films in the series, check out ASH IS THE PUREST WHITE (Episode #643), HER SMELL (Episode #650), and BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ (Episode #657). Before the review, we’ll have a promo from the Assassinations podcast. Every episode, Niall Cooper talks about a historical assassination, what lead up to it, and the effects that followed. You can find him on Twitter @assassinspod, where you can link to his podcast. Don’t miss his guest review for Reign of Terror 2019 for PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (Episode #615), where he helps me with my stupid, stupid mind. Subscribe to stay current with the latest releases. Contribute at Patreon for exclusive content. Connect with us over social media to continue the conversation. Here we go! ///// > ///// Today’s movie is RAFIKI, the subversive Kenyan film directed by Wanuri Kahiu and written for the screen in collaboration with Jenna Cato Bass, based on the short story “Jambula Tree” by Monica Arac de Nyeko. The film follows Kena Mwaura (Samantha Mugatsia) and Ziki Okemi (Sheila Munyiva), the daughters of two prominent community men running for public office. When flirting leads to a romantic relationship, the two ladies must love each other in secret in order to keep themselves safe in Nairobi. No spoilers. However, a content warning for violence against women and multiple hate crimes. The story about this film is just as important as the story within the film itself. Rafiki is Swahili for friend, which is often the way that same-sex partners introduce their lovers in public in Kenya, where same-sex relationships are punishable with up to 14 years in prison. While the United States, and many other countries, have been celebrating major victories for inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community, other countries, most notably African countries in alliance with Western evangelical Christians, have been implementing some of the harshest, most homophobic laws in the world. The logic is always the same, that somehow LGBTQ+ individuals can be conditioned via fear into changing their identities, or at the very least, learn to pass as heterosexual in society. As you might imagine, RAFIKI was initially banned by the Kenyan Film Board for its promotion of same-sex relationships, specifically asking the directors to change the ending. Kahiu vehemently refused and the film was banned with stiff penalties for even having copies. A vigorous outcry went up from the worldwide LGBTQ+ and filmmaking communities, which lead to the film winning Un Certain Regard at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and the ban being overturned in Kenya after Kahiu sued for the film to be eligible for the Oscars. The Kenyan High Court overturned the ban, and the film ran for two weeks, but was ultimately not selected as Kenya’s selection for the Oscars. Clearly another story of censorship having the exact opposite effect in the Age of Information. RAFIKI is the latest feature film from Wanuri Kahiu, a pre-eminent African filmmaker specifically engaged in Afrofuturism, the incorporation of black people’s history and culture into science fiction and related genres. In fact, her short PUMZI was Kenya’s first science fiction film. Afrofuturism featured heavily at the box office in 2018 with BLACK PANTHER (Episode #050). Notions of Afrofuturism have expanded outside of hard science fiction and into many other genres, including the critical horror hit GET OUT (Episode #448), and especially as science fiction and post-apocalyptic genres get way more diverse in their characters and their themes. RAFIKI, by contrast, is a film very much set in Africa’s present, dealing with the oppressive beliefs regarding homosexuality. We’re introduced to a neighborhood in Nairobi, initially focused on a day in the life of Kena, who by all accounts and appearances would be considered a tomboy. Her male friends, and self-proclaimed potential suitors, often talk about their views regarding women, and by extension, the patriarchal views that define gender norms. Each female character that’s introduced is then judged based on those norms. Some characters, like Kena and Ziki, attempt to defy those norms, whether that’s Kena’s tomboy attitude or Ziki’s distinctive look. Other characters, like the town gossip and her daughter, force adherence to those norms. The film proceeds in three parts. The first act closes by bringing Kena and Ziki together, publicly as friends, but privately as something much more. Color acts a barometer for the entire film. Kahiu’s uses bright colors in the first two acts, a combination of costumes and locations, framing shots to feature light and color, to exemplify the joy between the young women. Mugatsia and Munyiva has genuine chemistry as Kena and Ziki, communicated effectively with mere glances when needed, and patient action when allowed. However, as the second act comes to a close, and their relationship begins infringing on other people, the color begins to fade, and as we enter night-time, we begin to see the limits of acceptance, even for daughters of prominent political families. Does RAFIKI tell a new story about forbidden relationships in intolerant communities? Not really. Every society that is still intolerant towards the LGBTQ+ community will have periods of transition, as communities wrestle with outdated notions of sex and love, and those stories will look similar. But what’s important about RAFIKI is that it helps tell Kenya’s story about this very transition. Kahiu was right to fight the censors over the ending to RAFIKI, not just for the principle of the matter, but because it lead to ultimately forcing the Kenyan Film Board to show the film, often to sold-out crowds, and started numerous conversations about Kenya’s restrictive laws towards the LGBTQ+ community. Art is one of the more powerful means of social change, which will make RAFIKI an important tool in the fight for acceptance in Kenya. RAFIKI is a beautiful, daring film, as much about love and acceptance as it is about hate and intolerance, exploring both sides of the fight for LGBTQ+ acceptance in Kenya. Wanuri Kahiu combines Nairobi’s natural color with excellent costumes to weave a tale about forbidden love between two very strong lead roles. Fans of LGBTQ+ films, or folks who want a glimpse at the intolerance faced by LGBTQ+ individuals around the world, should definitely check out this film. Rotten Tomatoes: 94% (CERTIFIED FRESH) Metacritic: 68 One Movie Punch: 9.5/10 RAFIKI (2018) is not rated and is currently playing on Hoopla and Kanopy.

Kenyan filmmaker, Wanuri Kahiu uses her recent short film PUMZI to illustrate the research techniques and decision-making process she used to create a distinct futuristic world on a low budget.  She explains the rudimentary tools and special effects techniques she used to bring this world to life. Wanuri's session took place on Saturday 28 Oct at the Big Screen Symposium 2018 in Auckland, NZ. The Big Screen Symposium is New Zealand's annual premiere film event, proudly brought to you by Script to Screen and janda. This podcast is available on Podbean, Spotify and Apple.

In Kenyan filmmaker, Wanuri Kahiu’s Keynote address, she explores the AFROBUBBLEGUM movement. What if our art, our stories, our voices were more about celebrating joy than overcoming suffering? Would we think ourselves more worthy of happiness? Using examples of joy traditions and cultures expressed through African art, Wanuri presents an argument for the zeitgeist of joy and hope. This session is presented by NZ on Air. Anna's keynote address took place on Saturday 28 Oct at the Big Screen Symposium 2018 in Auckland, NZ. The Big Screen Symposium is New Zealand's annual premiere film event, proudly brought to you by Script to Screen and janda. This podcast is available on Podbean, Spotify and Apple

Ah, chatting about the weather. A bit of timeworn small-talk, favored by fumbly podcast hosts everywhere. But that pleasant chill in the air in Nairobi in early summer; that is at the heart of everything we’re going to be talking about over the next weeks here in Kenya. That cool climate, it seems, was Nairobi’s original sin, the thing that first drew British civil engineers to build a rail depot here in 1899. Pity the poor colonizer, who had been trying to subjugate so many peoples in the unbearable heat. Here at more than 5800 feet above sea level—way higher even than Denver—the air is dewy and lovely and it makes perfect sense that it would make an appealing homebase for your average gin-soaked sadist from Old Blighty looking to queen over all of East Africa. So Nairobi was born as a European city, and this whole region of East Africa became known as the White Highlands, where the land was stolen from the Masai and Kikuyu with such vigor and arrogance that, well, you had the Nandi resistance and the Kolloa Massacre and the Mau Mau Uprising and finally a free Nairobi, capitol city of the independent Republic of Kenya. Its airport was built in part by Mau Mau prisoners held by the British in ghastly conditions, and today the airport is named after freedom fighter and first president Jomo Kenyatta. That’s just the first taste, for any arriving visitor, of the conflicting strands of DNA that weave around each other throughout this city. My first attempt to untangle it all starts with Wanuri Kahiu. When we put Nairobi on the calendar, she was the first person we thought of having on the show. When she said she lives in Karen, a particularly dewy and green district of Nairobi with a view of the Ngong Hills, that’s where I decided to stay. She is a leader that way, through her work and in person, she communicates this sense of humor and lightness mixed with intimate moral urgency, a push to see the world as she sees it, knows it, films it. If you are a fan of film and disturbed by censorship, you’ll know her film Rafiki, the first Kenyan film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, even as it was it banned by the Kenyan authorities for reasons relating to, well, gay-ism. But as you’ll hear in this episode, the fights she fought with Rafiki are still ongoing, and so are her triumphs, which will be coming, with more of that quiet and effective force, to your favorite streaming platform soon. Welcome to Nairobi, this is first of five episodes from this city, each featuring a different interview with artists, filmmakers, journalists and musicians. Show notes:Rafiki trailer TEDx Wanuri Kahiu talkKenya Supreme Court Anti-Homosexuality RulingHajooj Kuka’s documentary Beats of the Antonov Afrobubblegum For more episodes of The Trip, visit luminary.link/thetrip Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ah, chatting about the weather. A bit of timeworn small-talk, favored by fumbly podcast hosts everywhere. But that pleasant chill in the air in Nairobi in early summer; that is at the heart of everything we’re going to be talking about over the next weeks here in Kenya. That cool climate, it seems, was Nairobi’s original sin, the thing that first drew British civil engineers to build a rail depot here in 1899. Pity the poor colonizer, who had been trying to subjugate so many peoples in the unbearable heat. Here at more than 5800 feet above sea level—way higher even than Denver—the air is dewy and lovely and it makes perfect sense that it would make an appealing homebase for your average gin-soaked sadist from Old Blighty looking to queen over all of East Africa. So Nairobi was born as a European city, and this whole region of East Africa became known as the White Highlands, where the land was stolen from the Masai and Kikuyu with such vigor and arrogance that, well, you had the Nandi resistance and the Kolloa Massacre and the Mau Mau Uprising and finally a free Nairobi, capitol city of the independent Republic of Kenya. Its airport was built in part by Mau Mau prisoners held by the British in ghastly conditions, and today the airport is named after freedom fighter and first president Jomo Kenyatta. That’s just the first taste, for any arriving visitor, of the conflicting strands of DNA that weave around each other throughout this city. My first attempt to untangle it all starts with Wanuri Kahiu. When we put Nairobi on the calendar, she was the first person we thought of having on the show. When she said she lives in Karen, a particularly dewy and green district of Nairobi with a view of the Ngong Hills, that’s where I decided to stay. She is a leader that way, through her work and in person, she communicates this sense of humor and lightness mixed with intimate moral urgency, a push to see the world as she sees it, knows it, films it. If you are a fan of film and disturbed by censorship, you’ll know her film Rafiki, the first Kenyan film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, even as it was it banned by the Kenyan authorities for reasons relating to, well, gay-ism. But as you’ll hear in this episode, the fights she fought with Rafiki are still ongoing, and so are her triumphs, which will be coming, with more of that quiet and effective force, to your favorite streaming platform soon. Welcome to Nairobi, this is first of five episodes from this city, each featuring a different interview with artists, filmmakers, journalists and musicians. Show notes:Rafiki trailer TEDx Wanuri Kahiu talkKenya Supreme Court Anti-Homosexuality RulingHajooj Kuka’s documentary Beats of the Antonov Afrobubblegum For more episodes of The Trip, visit luminary.link/thetrip

In de zesde aflevering van De Cineville Podcast hebben het over Mirai van Mamoru Hosoda, de eerste Japanse animatiefilm buiten Studio Ghibli die voor een Oscar werd genomineerd. Als de vierjarige Kun een zusje krijgt, ligt hij opeens de hele tijd schreeuwend op de grond van jaloezie. Maar dan komt zijn zusje uit de toekomst langs, en een prins die eigenlijk een hond is.Misschien is Kun niet verwend, maar heeft hij gewoon liefdesverdriet. We praten over de pijn van opgroeien, onze favoriete driftkoppen uit de filmgeschiedenis en de golf van films, muziek en eten uit het kneiterhippe Japan. En wanneer hadden we zelf voor het laatst een rode waas voor ogen?Mirai draait nu in de bioscoop, check cineville.nl voor alle draaitijden. Ennn vertel al je filmvrienden over onze podcast, abonneer je op ons kanaal en laat een review achter, en/of mail ons op podcast@cineville.nl (gezellig!)Deze titels kwamen langs:Mirai (2018) - Mamoru HosodaSummer Wars (2009) - Mamoru HosodaSpirited Away (2001) - Hayao MiyazakiPonyo (2008) - Hayao MiyazakiPrincess Mononoke (1997) - Hayao MiyazakiHowl's Moving Castle (2008) - Hayao MiyazakiWolf Children (2012) - Mamoru HosodaJ'ai tué ma mère (2009) - Xavier DolanThere Will Be Blood (2007) - Paul Thomas AndersonFucking Åmål (1998) - Lukas MoodyssonDragon Ball (1986 - 2003) - Minoru OkazakiPokémon (1997- heden) - Kunihiko YuyamaDigimon: The Movie (2000) - Mamoru HosodaYour Name (2016) - Makoto ShinkaiFreaky Friday (2003) - Mark Watersポケット・ミュジック / Pocket Music (1986) - Tatsuro YamashitaOnno de Onwetende (2014) - Viktor van der ValkElevate (2018) - Meryam JoobeurBrotherhood (2018) - Meryam JoobeurEn dit waren onze tips van de maand:Nocturne (2019) - Viktor van der Valk (vanaf 9 mei 2019 te zien in Cineville)Festival Cinema Arabe (7 mei t/m 12 mei 2019 in Rialto, Melkweg en Lumière)Rafiki (2018) - Wanuri Kahiu (vanaf 23 mei 2019 te zien in Cineville. Voorpremières vanaf vrijdag 17 mei)---Host: Erik SchumacherGasten: Jesse Heijnis & Maan MeelkerRedactie: Maan Meelker & Erik SchumacherTechniek: Dag en Nacht Media See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Adam and Kevin discuss Wanuri Kahiu’s Rafiki and talk about some other stuff including Doing What They Love, Hellboy, In Dog Years, Police Story 1 & 2, and Julie and Julia. 00:04:23 - Rafiki review 00:18:33 - Watch list 00:42:10 - New releases Please consider supporting Film Pulse by contributing to our Patreon for just $1 per month! http://patreon.com/filmpulse web: http://filmpulse.net twitter: http://twitter.com/filmpulsenet facebook: http://facebook.com/filmpulse

Directed by Wanuri Kahiu, "Rafiki" centers on Kena and Ziki, who both long for something more than what they're expected to be. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Wanuri Kahiu's lesbian love story is the first Kenyan feature to ever screen at Cannes.

Sharifah and Jenn discuss Cowboy Bebop, an Octavia Butler adaptation, con-artists and thieves, and more. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling, and Voices by David Elliott. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!   News: Hugo Nominees announced! John Cho and Three More Actors Cast in Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Nnedi Okorafor and Wanuri Kahiu to Adapt Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed for Amazon   Books Discussed The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty Want by Cindy Pon Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang

Le cinéaste rwandais Joel Karekezi a remporté la plus grande récompense du Fespaco pour son film sur l'absurdité de la guerre au Congo et des guerres en général. Le prix d'interprétation féminine va à Samantha Mugotsia pour son rôle dans "Rafiki", de la Kényane Wanuri Kahiu, film projeté à Cannes en 2018 et censuré au Kenya. Dans ce "Club", rencontre avec les deux jeunes réalisateurs.

Den kenyanske filmregissøren Wanuri Kahiu var i Oslo i forbindelse med årets Film Fra Sør. Vi møtte henne og snakket om filmen hennes Rafiki, Afrofuturisme og hvordan man jobber for LHBT-rettigheter i en religiøs kontekst

I dagens sending fikk vi besøk av bandet ísa som slipper nytt album på fredag. I tillegg fikk vi høre et intervju med den kenyanske regissøren Wanuri Kahiu. Hun har blant annet regissert filmen Rafiki som er å se på kino nå

This week on of TIFF Long Take, Rob and Geoff sit down with South African film producer, and founder of the production company ‘Big World Cinema’, Steven Markovitz. Over his thirty years in the film business, Markovitz has produced over 40 films in on the continent of Africa, and has seen his fair share of challenges trying to get these projects financed, and distributed around the world. One of his most recent productions, the Wanuri Kahiu directed 'Rafiki', was embroiled in controversy after it was was banned in its home country of Kenya. The ban sparked international outrage among supporters of LGBTQ rights, and has since been lifted. Markovitz talks about the events that inspired the founding of his film company, how his films strive to challenge the “dominant African narrative”, and how he’s managed to identify talent across the continent. He also talks the most exciting young filmmakers working in Africa, the difficulties he’s experienced trying to market African films to an international audience, and the saga behind making and distributing 'Rafiki'.

Les sorties de film de la semaine du mercredi 26 septembre, avec "Un Peuple et son roi", un drame historique français de Pierre Schoeller, "I Feel Good", une comédie française de Benoît Delépine et Gustave Kervern, "L'Ombre d'Emily", un thriller américain de Paul Feig et "Rafiki, un film kényan de Wanuri Kahiu. Info théâtre avec la pièce de Baffi "Toc Toc" et un spectacle de danse "Solstice" de Blanca Li.

I Kenya er homofili forbudt ved lov. Men det stanset ikke den Nairobi-fødte regissøren Wanuri Kahiu fra å lage en spillefilm om ung, lesbisk kjærlighet. Filmen Rafiki - som betyr "venn" på swahili - ble vist under filmfestivalen i Cannes som den aller første filmen fra Kenya på Cannesfestivalen. Der høstet den gode anmeldelser - men den ble forbudt å vise i hjemlandet Kenya Nå har imidlertid en dommer tillatt visning av filmen på ordinær kino i en uke sammenhengende, for at den skal kunne kvalifiseres til Oscar-nominasjonene, i kategorien beste utenlandske film. Tor Kjetil Edland - internasjonal rådgiver med Øst-Afrika som spesialområde i Foreningen FRI, gjestet Studio 2.

In August it will be 20 years since more than 200 people were killed when simultaneous truck bomb explosions were carried out on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Zeinab Badawi speaks to the acclaimed Kenyan film-maker Wanuri Kahiu who made an award winning film on the tragedy. Her latest film depicting a lesbian love affair however has been banned in Kenya. What does her film making tell us about African society today and how they are viewed by wider audiences? (Photo: Director Wanuri Kahiu attend the screening of Leto at Cannes Film Festival. Credit: Dominique Charriau/WireImage)

In August it will be 20 years since more than 200 people were killed when simultaneous truck bomb explosions were carried out on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Zeinab Badawi speaks to the acclaimed Kenyan film-maker Wanuri Kahiu who made an award winning film on the tragedy. Her latest film depicting a lesbian love affair however has been banned in Kenya. What does her film making tell us about African society today and how they are viewed by wider audiences? (Photo: Director Wanuri Kahiu attend the screening of Leto at Cannes Film Festival. Credit: Dominique Charriau/WireImage)

Rafiki, a film by Wanuri Kahiu, is a story about two young women who fall in love, despite their families being on opposing sides of the Kenyan political divide. It is adapted from the 2007 Caine Prize-winning short story, Jambula Tree, by Ugandan writer Monica Arac de Nyeko. On 12th April 2018, it was announced that it would debut at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category in May 2018. This made it the first Kenyan feature film to achieve this feat. On 27th April 2018, the head of Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB), Ezekiel Mutua, announced that the film had been banned from screening and distribution in Kenya because of “its homosexual theme and clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law.” We are joined by Wanuri Kahiu to discuss the film, the story it tells, and what it mean whens stories that are made primarily for a Kenyan audience are denied this audience. Press play!

La page Facebook d'OMOH : https://www.facebook.com/omohofficiel/ La bande-annonce de Rafiki de Wanuri Kahiu : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_-ucSaFpU La bande-annonce de Love, Simon de Greg Berlanti : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phrr_nRr5hk La bande-annonce d'À genoux les gars d'Antoine Desrosières : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZuN3v_Gj1o La bande-annonce de Volontaire d'Hélène Fillières : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6EpRd9umRI La bande-annonce de How to talk to girls at parties de John Cameron Mitchell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUQ1DJKZ-P8 La page Facebook de Bachass : https://www.facebook.com/Bachass-1997924073571200/ La bande-annonce de C'est qui cette fille de Nathan Silver : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFmTH0GiuZY

Pour la première fois un long-métrage kényan est sélectionné au festival de Cannes : "Rafiki", de la cinéaste Wanuri Kahiu. Un film pourtant interdit dans son pays car il raconte l’histoire d’amour d’un couple lesbien.

A colorful and hopeful love story between two girls in the homophobic Kenyan society. The post Wanuri Kahiu – Rafiki #Cannes2018 appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

A colorful and hopeful love story between two girls in the homophobic Kenyan society. The post Wanuri Kahiu – Rafiki #Cannes2018 appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

A colorful and hopeful love story between two girls in the homophobic Kenyan society. The post Wanuri Kahiu – Rafiki #Cannes2018 appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

A colorful and hopeful love story between two girls in the homophobic Kenyan society. The post Wanuri Kahiu – Rafiki #Cannes2018 appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

A colorful and hopeful love story between two girls in the homophobic Kenyan society. The post Wanuri Kahiu – Rafiki #Cannes2018 appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

A colorful and hopeful love story between two girls in the homophobic Kenyan society. The post Wanuri Kahiu – Rafiki #Cannes2018 appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

Dr Louisa Egbunike, lecturer in English at City University London, is interested in the shifting frame of Afrofuturism. The term was originally coined in 1993 to bracket together work by African-American writers, artists and musicians who were dealing with science-fiction and speculative themes. However it has only recently been suggested that work by creatives living in Africa and those who are part of the more recent African diaspora could also be described as Afrofuturist. Louisa talks to the writer Chikodili Emelumadu and the film makers Nosa Igbinedion and Wanuri Kahiu about whether this is a label that they welcome being applied to their work and the extent to which traditional African mythology was Afrofuturist long before the word was invented. Producer: Torquil MacLeod And in the second half of the programme, Dr Seán Williams of the University of Sheffield argues that the sometimes mundane context and subject matter of German Lieder and literature in the 18th and early 19th centuries have surprising things to tell us about what is ordinarily viewed as the highest of high art. Seán explores economic and social settings in the one hundred years between Bach's Coffee Cantata and Schubert's songs, when consumerism was on the rise, and with it the middle classes and lower nobility discovered a love of ... stuff. Songs at the piano, reading novels on the sofa with a bout of indigestion, a poodle at your feet. Such were the bourgeois drawing-rooms in which Romantic yearning for the affirming power of nature and the agony of the human condition took hold of the imagination. Producer: Tom Alban

Estamos muy acostumbrados a leer relatos sobre la guerra, la pobreza o la devastación en África, dice Wanuri Kahiu como miembro de TED. ¿Dónde queda la diversión? Presentando "AfroBubbleGum": arte africano excitante, alegre y sin ninguna agenda política. Reconsideremos el valor de todo lo que no es serio a medida que Kahui explica las razones por las que necesitamos un arte que capture todo tipo de experiencias humanas para contar historias sobre África.

Wir haben uns daran gewöhnt, dass Geschichten aus Afrika von Krieg, Armut und Zerstörung handeln, sagt TED-Fellow Wanuri Kahiu. Wo ist der ganze Spaß? Dürfen wir vorstellen: „AfroBubbleGum“. Das ist afrikanische Kunst, die lebendig ist, leichtsinnig und ohne politische Agenda. Lasst uns den Wert von allem Unwichtigen neu überdenken, denn Kahiu erklärt, warum wir Kunst brauchen, die die gesamte Bandbreite von menschlichen Erfahrungen abdeckt, um die Geschichten von Afrika zu erzählen.

Estamos muito acostumados às narrativas sobre a África serem sobre guerra, pobreza e devastação, diz a bolsista TED Wanuri Kahiu. Onde está a alegria? Apresentando "AfroBubbleGum", uma arte africana vibrante, iluminada e sem agenda política. Repense o valor de tudo que não é sério, enquanto Kahiu explica por que ela precisa de arte que capture toda a gama de experiências humanas para contar as histórias da África.

Nous avons tant l'habitude des récits africains traitant de la guerre, de la pauvreté et de la dévastation, dit la TED Fellow Wanuri Kahiu. Qu'y a-t-il d'amusant ? Elle présente « ChewingGumAfro », un art africain dynamique, jovial et sans programme politique. Repensez la valeur de tout ce qui n'est pas sérieux alors que Kahiu explique pourquoi nous avons besoin d'un art qui saisisse tout l'éventail des expériences humaines pour raconter les histoires de l'Afrique.

We're so used to narratives out of Africa being about war, poverty and devastation, says TED Fellow Wanuri Kahiu. Where's the fun? Introducing "AfroBubbleGum" -- African art that's vibrant, lighthearted and without a political agenda. Rethink the value of all that is unserious as Kahiu explains why we need art that captures the full range of human experiences to tell the stories of Africa.

TED 펠로우인 와누리 카히우는 말합니다. "저희는 아프리카를 전쟁, 빈곤, 그리고 황폐화의 대륙으로 묘사해왔었죠. 즐거움은 어디에 있나요?" 그녀는 정치적인 도구가 아니라, 활기차고 즐거운 "아프리카 풍선껌"이라는 아프리카 예술을 소개합니다. 카히우는 예술이 아프리카의 다양한 소재와 경험을 담아내야 하는 이유를 설명합니다. 이 단순한 변화가 가져올 가치에 대해 생각해보세요.

Nomusa and Adedana interview the incredible Wanuri Kahiu about #BlackGirlSciFi, #Afrofuturism, and pour coconut oil onto your lives. 0:33 The Ketchup 3:21 Africa Rising // Africa *still* rising 8:10 The Afracanah proverb of the week! 9:50 Interview with Boss Lady Wanuri Kahiu Production: Nomusa June and Adedana Ashebir Editing: Frederica Boswell Branding: Victor Murithi Find Wanuri at @wanuri on Twitter and watch her award-winning short film "Pumzi" here > https://vimeo.com/46891859 Intro music composed and performed by AVbyte, as heard on "Honest Trailers - The Lion King" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFtBjc1dz7w

Episode 5 guest Wanuri Kahiu gives @Afracanah a splash of her uniquely AfroBubbleGum and #BlackGirlSciFi style with her reading of "Rusties," co-written along with (Hugo Award winner!) Nnedi Okorafor. 0:22 Episode Recap 0:33 "Rusties" Chapters 2 and 3 - Narrated by Wanuri Kahiu 8:55 Vote of Thanks "Rusties" was originally published in "Clarkesworld Magazine." > http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor-kahiu_10_16/ Want to learn more about Wanuri's work? You can watch her award-winning short film "Pumzi" here > vimeo.com/46891859 Find Wanuri and Nnedi on Twitter at @wanuri and @nnedi. Narration: Wanuri Kahiu Production: Nomusa June and Adedana Ashebir Editing: Frederica Boswell Branding: Victor Murithi Intro music composed and performed by AVbyte, as heard on "Honest Trailers - The Lion King" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFtBjc1dz7w

Our fifth podcast for October is “Rusties” written by Nnedi Okorafor and Wanuri Kahiu and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.

Our fifth podcast for October is “Rusties” written by Nnedi Okorafor and Wanuri Kahiu and read by Kate Baker.