Lupita's long journey to fame that international media refuses to tell
Lupita Nyong'o (born 1983) is a Kenyan actress and filmmaker. She made her American film debut in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013), as Patsey.+(Copy).png)
It is interesting how they introduce her; Mexican-born Kenyan Lupita… For heavens sake, can we just have our Lupita as the Kenyan girl we all saw own her talent here, right from scratch before you guys noticed her this year? Another headline story read: “In the spring of 2012, Lupita Nyong’o graduated from the Yale School of Drama. Then she was cast in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave — and her life changed almost overnight...” Like really? Do you have any single clue how this girl has worked her acting life out, scaling through the entertainment ladder to her new epitomised praise. It did not start after Yale School. Neither is it all about Steve McQueen and the Brad Pitts of this world. How do you explain a genius so ambitious to a point of eclipsing the fame of her own father Anyang’ Nyong’o — one of Kenya’s prolific politician of great rhetoric wit? Not even her cousin Isis Nyong’o, who was named one of Africa’s most powerful women by Forbes magazine in 2012 could steal her thunder.
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