Were it not for the sake of the white man, Kenyans and entire Africa would not have appreciated the value of Lupita Nyong’o ’s beautiful nature. I would sit somewhere and imagine that only her parents and siblings thought she was more beautiful than anyone else than someone would have thought.
- The 33 year old was born on March 1st in 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico
- She holds two citizenships, a Kenyan and Mexican citizenship
- She studied at Hampshire College Yale School of Drama
- She is an actress, filmmaker and director, model and music and video director
- Her debut was in a small film East River-2008 before being famous from Shuga in 2009 and In My Genes
- She is the first Kenyan and first Mexican to win an Academy Award after winning Academy Award for the best supporting actress.
- Her most successful moment came out in 2013 when she starred in 12 Years As A Slave
- She is the second in six born to Dorothy and Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o who is the former minister of health in Kenya and the current Senator of Kisumu County
- At the time of her birth in 1983, her father was working at El Colegio De Mexico for three years
- Her parents moved back to Kenya when she was barely one year old because the father was appointed a professor at the University of Nairobi. Lupita was then sent back to Mexico when she was 16 years old
- She acted in small drama plays such as Oliver Twist while she was studying at Rusinga International School in Kenya before joining St. Mary’s School in Nairobi
- Lupita who resides in Brooklyn is fluent in Swahili, Luo, English and Spanish languages
- In 2015 she returned back home in Kenya to advocate for Wildlife species such as the endangered Elephants
- Lupita was made on the cover of Vogue making her the ninth African and second African woman to appear on the cover of that magazine
- New York one time celebrated a day named Lupita Nyong’o Day to honour her works
By Simon Ingari.
