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Dr Njoki Ngumi – Artist and film-maker
Why does Dr Njoki Ngumi believe art has the power to transform societies and lives?
Zeinab Badawi is in Nairobi to talk to one of Kenya’s most ground-breaking cultural figures Dr Njoki Ngumi. She abandoned a promising career in medicine to help set up an arts collective and believes that creative endeavours can help transform societies. One of the collective’s films exploring homosexuality was banned in Kenya where gay sex is a crime. So how far is Njoki Ngumi shifting opinions?
(Photo: Dr Njoki Ngumi)
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