AVRIL BAGS ROLE AS MISS B’HAVE IN SHUGA II

Ogopa DJ artiste Avril has bagged a role in the second MTV drama series, Shuga that starts filming this week in Nairobi.Avril who will play the role of a character called Miss B’have will be joined by other Kenyan personalities like Nick Ndeda (Angelo), Nancy Wanjiku (Baby), Brenda Wairimu (Dala), Edward Nyanaro (Rayban) and Ikubese Emmanuel - a.k.a. 9con - (Femi).Meanwhile, Lupita Nyong’o, who

SHUGA TO AUDITION FEMALE AND MALE ACTORS

Upcoming production of Shuga: Love, Sex, Money has sent out a call to Kenyan youth to audition for two supporting roles. Auditions will be held on Saturday 27 August 2011 between 08:00 and 18:00 at Homeboyz Studios at Ambar House, Baricho Road in Nairobi. To be eligible to audition, you must be a Kenyan resident between the ages of 18 and 24 with good spoken English skills. No previous acting

WHEN LUPITA PLANKED…PUBLICLY

MTV Shuga actress Lupita Nyongo was dared to plank, and plank she did – after being voted to do so on the MTV Shuga Facebook page. And as the rules state, the more public the plank the better. Lupita did just that.Lupita has been acting for a long time from starring in phoenix productions to featuring in a short film by American producer Marc Grey. She is however, famed for her role as Ayira on

HERE IT COMES, SHUGA 2 WITH TWICE THE DRAMA !

After the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria last week, the officials behind the gripping three-part drama, Shuga gave it a new lease of life.On Tuesday, July 20, a panel of MTV, Pepfar and Unicef officials heard that in Kenya, where the three part series was filmed, an astounding 64% of young people 15-24 were aware of the campaign and 60% saw it and remembered it.This lead to

LUPITA AND LEO IN AUSTRIA FOR AIDS CONFERENCE

Two Kenyan actors from the hit series Shuga have traveled to Vienna, Austria for the International AIDS Conference. Lupita Nyong'o who played the lead Ayira and co actor Nicholas Munene who played Leo took part in the Tuesday July 13, night viewing of the MTV series at the Steigenberger Herrenhof Hotel, Herrengasse in Vienna. The conference also saw a report on the social exclusion of children

LUPITA STARTS CLASSES AT YALE

Filmmaker and model Lupita Nyongo’s has started her degree classes in Theatre Art at the prestigious American university Yale. The MTV actress and filmmaker has begun classes Writing from campus, Lupita, the daughter of medical service minister Prof Peter Anyang Nyongo, wrote in an email that she was “settling into school.“My schedule is already very hectic. They have us working hard from the

VALERIE KIMANI AND LUPITA NYONGO IN MTV SERIES

The MTV Staying Alive Ignite drama series started shooting in various locations in Nairobi this week. One of the sets of the educational show was at the Zen Gardens on Wednesday 19. One of the notable cast members is Lupita Nyong'o who is playing the lead role – Ayira, a beautiful and vivacious college student who is using her body to give her family a better life. Ayira is friends with Sindi an

LUPITA SCORES ONE FOR THE ALBINOS IN KENYA

Lupita Nyongo’s film In My Genes has not only caused a splash in film circles, it has also made it an impact in parliament. For the first time in the history of Kenya, a petition on Albinism rights was presented to the House, on Thursday August 6. This petition was tabled by Eugene Wamalwa MP and was brought to the House through the Albinism Society of Kenya and Lupita. It asked the government

LUPITA: ALEX IS JUST A FRIEND

The question on everyone's lips, are filmmakers Lupita Nyongo and Alex Konstantaras dating?Their answer to the salacious claims put forth by 'fans of their work' is negative. Lupita eplianed thier relationship. “Alex and I are not dating actually. We met in Rwanda and really hit it off. We have a lot in common and we enjoy each other’s company. Our relationship is purely platonic,” she said.The

LUPITA’S SHARED DIARY FROM RWANDAN FILM FESTIVAL

Jaques Rutabingwa (RFF's Tech Director), Lupita Nyong'o (IN MY GENES) & Joseph Kinuthia Kamau (JITU FILMS): Musarait Kashmiri (Director of MAISHA FILM LAB, Uganda), Meddy Saleh (Cinematographer), Lupita Nyong'o (IN MY GENES), Ayuub Kasasa (Hillywood Coordinator) and Daddy Ruhorahoza (Rwandan Filmmaker)View of Kigali from Cine Star, one of the festival's screening venuesRkPe5aq1-10/s320/IMG_4604_

LUPITA NYONG’O COVERS DRUM

Well, according to the Facebook communiqué’ Lupita Nyong’o graces the Drum cover this month. Read all about this young award-winning film maker whose documentary ‘In my Genes’ was recently released locally. Get inspired by how she launched her career in a cut throat industry.Capture the exciting birthday bash of EAM publisher Carole Mandi at the spa with close friends - sunning, bathing and

Lupita Nyongo’s take on her docu-film

Lupita says, “I embarked on this documentary as a way to educate myself and others like me on the condition of albinism and to shed light on the stigma, discrimination and persecution that they face because of their difference. It is alarming that this special condition that exists in every race and civilization of human beings – and indeed in most animal species – should be so hyper-visible and

All About Lupita Nyong'o's Docu-Film

CK and Delphine, Twin SistersIn My Genes Movie PosterAgnes Muthakye and the family she always longed forJames and Pamela look at their first childIN MY GENES is the eye-opening story of vision, violence and the value of human difference set in Kenya’s vibrant capital city, Nairobi and her environs. Shot in 2006, before the news of the rampant murders of albinos in Tanzania, the film is both