Wanjiru Kinyanjui

Africa is a Woman's Name

Ingrid Sinclair, Wanjiru Kinyanjui

The lives of three extraordinary African women from different social levels and origins determined to bring about radical transformations in their day to day realities: Kenyan attorney and reputed lawyer Njoki Ndung'u, Puthi Ragophala the committed school principal of a remote South African village and Zimbabwean housewife-entrepreneur, Amai Rosie.

A Lover & Killer Of Colour

Wanjiru Kinyanjui

A young painter appreciates the versatility of colours. She tries to come to terms with her loneliness in Germany with poems and paintings.

Black in the Western World

Wanjiru Kinyanjui

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Wanjiru Kinyanjui was born in Kenya in 1958. Before becoming a filmmaker, she was a writer, poet, and radio journalist. She obtained her master’s degree in English Literature and German in Berlin before enrolling in the German Film and Television School (dffb) there. This film consists of several interviews with people of colour and talks about their view on racism in Germany.

Der Kampf um den heiligen Baum

Wanjiru Kinyanjui

Margaret Nyacheo, Catherine Kariuki

Mumbi leaves Nairobi for her ancestral village and gets into a quarrel with a Christian women’s group seeking to eradicate the remains of pre-colonial belief systems. Wanjiru Kinyanjui graduated from the DFFB with this smart comedy shot in Kenya.

Berlin African Time

Wanjiru Kinyanjui

Documentary about African Music performed in Berlin.