Wanuri Kahiu
Kenyan filmmaker · Kenya · On the map · Directors · Born 1980 · age 46
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".
Wanuri Kahiu is read about 30 times a day, in 16 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 8 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 142 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Washington BlackSeries, Director2024
SarahFilm, Producer2022
Look Both WaysFilm, Director2019OkayAfrica 100 WomenAward2018OkayAfrica 100 WomenAward
RafikiFilm, 2018Director, Writer2016
Who Am I?Film, Director2013
HomecomingFilm, Producer2012The Spark That Unites UsFilm, Director, Producer2011
Africa First: Volume OneFilm, Director2009
PumziFilm, Director, Writer2008
From a WhisperFilm, Director, Writer1980Born21 June 1980People around Wanuri
Close ties
Charles Dance Wanuri directed Washington Black
Lili Reinhart Wanuri directed Look Both Ways (2022)
Luke Wilson Wanuri directed Look Both Ways (2022)
Billy Boyd Wanuri directed Washington Black
Tom Ellis Wanuri directed Washington Black
Sterling K. Brown Wanuri directed Washington Black
Rupert Graves Wanuri directed Washington Black
Andrea Savage Wanuri directed Look Both Ways (2022)
Sharon Duncan-Brewster Wanuri directed Washington Black
Julian Rhind-Tutt Wanuri directed Washington Black
Shaunette Renée Wilson Wanuri directed Washington Black
Samantha Mugatsia Wanuri directed Rafiki (2019)- Nini Wacera Wanuri directed Rafiki (2019)
Ntare Mwine Wanuri directed Washington Black- Patricia Kihoro Wanuri directed Rafiki (2019)
- Muthoni Gathecha Wanuri directed Rafiki (2019)
- Sheila Munyiva Wanuri directed Rafiki (2019)
Jenna Bass Also in Africa First: Volume One and Rafiki- Nice Githinji Wanuri directed Rafiki (2019)
- Edward Bluemel Wanuri directed Washington Black
- Nick Reding Also in Who Am I? and Sarah
Timothy Headington Produced Rafiki (2018)
Filmography 10
16 credits on file
Television 1
Media & music
Photos 1
Awards
About this person
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.
