# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wanuri-kahiu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:29:58.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wanuri-kahiu"
name: "Wanuri Kahiu"
slug: "wanuri-kahiu"
description: "Wanuri Kahiū is a Kenyan film director, producer, and author. She is considered to be \"one of Africa's most aspiring directors, being part of a new, vibrant crop of talents representing contemporary African culture\". She has received multiple 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. She is also the co-founder of AFROBUBBLEGUM, a media collective dedicated to supporting African art for its own sake."
tagline: "Kenyan filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wanuri_Kahiu_at_the_2025_Sundance_Film_Festival_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1980-06-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.39
  momentum:             3.612565445026179
  historical:           14.49895866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/wanuri"
    handle:    "wanuri"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/wanuri/"
    handle:    "wanuri"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1393967/"
    handle:    "nm1393967"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.wanurikahiu.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "وانوري كاهيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وانورى كاهيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanuri_Kahiu"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanuri_Kahiu"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanuri_Kahiu"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanuri_Kahiu"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanuri_Kahiu"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanuri_Kahiu"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanuri_Kahiu"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanuri_Kahiu"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A7%D7%94%D7%99%D7%95"
    title: "ונורי קהיו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanuri_Kahiu"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanuri_Kahiu"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%99%80%EB%88%84%EB%A6%AC_%EC%B9%B4%ED%9E%88%EC%9A%B0"
    title: "와누리 카히우"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%81"
    title: "വനൂരി കഹിയു"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanuri_Kahiu"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3566180"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/132360"
    title: "Wanuri Kahiu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump