Lupita Nyong'o
Easily recognizable as the on screen siren form MTV-Ignite’s acclaimed hit series Shuga Lupita Nyongo has demonstrated that indeed she is a jack of many trades; film-maker, actress and model...........
And from her sterling on-screen performance that indeed acting is in her genes. Lupita, the daughter of Medical Services minister Anyang Nyongo won a full scholarship to the Ivy League Yale University’s Drama School to become the third African to be accepted into the prestigious university.
No stranger to the public eye this budding film producer has won international acclaim, for her documentary ‘In My Genes’ which is about albinism and highlights the stigma faced by albinos in Kenya. She described her reason for making the film as
Lupita was part of the Kenyan crew that shot Wahu and Bobi Wine’s video ‘Little Things You Do’ and emerged winners in the 2008 MTV Making The Video with Shell Contest.