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Wanuri Kahiu, 38 Filmmaker Kahiu grew up in a conservative household in her native Kenya where she yearned to become a filmmaker who spread radical ideas about equality. An excellent student, she moved to Los Angeles and managed to find her way to UCLA, where she earned a masters degree. She quickly earned notice for her Africa-centric feature films examining the political and social realities of the continent and bringing those issues international attention. Critics cite Kahiu as a quintessential “Afrofuturist” director, a...