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Wanuri Kahiu

Wanuri Kahiu was a Kenyan film director, screenwriter and film producer (born 1980). She was born at Nairobi.

Overview

Born at Nairobi in 1980.

Recognition and collections

Wanuri Kahiu received OkayAfrica 100 Women, Africa Movie Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival Awards.

Catalogued works

4 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Open Library.

Fun, fierce and fantastical African art | Wanuri Kahiu. AfroBubbleGum Test, dated 2017. Clarkesworld Issue 121. The wooden camel.

Literature

5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Afrobubblegum, resistencia e esperança queer em Rafiki (2018), de Wanuri Kahiu., Comunicación Revista Internacional de Comunicación Audiovisual Publicidad y Literatura, 2023. Fuelling Bodies: Movement, embodiment, and climate crisis in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2025. Wanuri Kahiu, director. For Our Land. 2009. 49 minutes. English, Kikuyu, and Swahili (with English subtitles). Kenya. M-Net. Available for free viewing at https://wanuri-kahiu.squarespace.com/classes/., African Studies Review, 2016. The Wooden Camel by Wanuri Kahiu, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2017. Lueurs utopiques dans les dystopies climatiques africaines d’Ayerdhal, Jean-Marc Ligny, Wanuri Kahiu et Nick Wood, Études littéraires africaines, 2023.

In detail

Wanuri Kahiu studied at University of California, Los Angeles and University of Warwick. the recorded working language is English.

Works named in the authority record are Rafiki.

Distinctions recorded are OkayAfrica 100 Women, Africa Movie Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival Awards.

Chronology

  1. 1980Wanuri Kahiu born at Nairobi.
  2. 2017AfroBubbleGum Test.

Sources

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  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

    “Wanuri Kahiu”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q3566180: Wanuri Kahiu

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