Much Ado About Lupita




It seems like in recent times everywhere you look, the TV,radio,magazines,social media and oh yes blogs you see or hear the name Lupita Nyongo!!

Infact it has become a case of 'Much Ado About Lupita', why ?you might have been wondering,well I'm about to do a little expose on that.

Like many of us,Lupita has been around for a while,she is actually 31 years old(you can close your mouth now...Lol) and we just got to hear about her majorly last year.

Now I'm going to go spiritual a bit(so forgive me) but the truth is you are hearing all the rave about Lupita because she is now excelling and soaring in her chosen profession which is acting.

Just a few weeks ago she won the coveted Oscar for The Most Supporting Actress for the movie 12 Years a Slave. And as if that's not enough she has become a fashionista of sorts as she seems to always get it right on the red carpet with her dressing(which is a major feat with all the critics and bad mouth people)


Let me shed a little more light(no pun intended) on who Lupita really is. She is a very dark skinned lady from Kenya (How many of us are really confident in our own skin?toning,bleaching,whitenicious anyone?)


Lupita Nyong'o who was born on the 1st of March 1983 made history by becoming the first woman from Kenya to win this year’s Oscar for best supporting actress for her acting in the movie 12 Years a Slave.
The beauty of her winning this award is how the other Americans in the audience gave her a standing ovation when her name was called. This showed that she really deserved it.

Thirty one year old Lupita gave a speech when she received the award saying ‘this award reminds me and every little child that no matter where you are from, your dreams are valid’

This movie that won her the Oscar Award is actually her first major role! And that’s not all; Lupita Nyongo was also nominated for other very important awards which include the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Despite the fact that she lives in America, she is fluent in her native Luo language and can also speak other languages which include English, Swahili and Spanish(how many of us are fluent in our mother tongue?)

She also always encourages people who are dark skinned to embrace their African heritage no matter where they find themselves. She stays true to her Kenyan roots and is proudly African in an industry where differences are not easily accepted. In fact, instead of changing her name she released a video teaching people how to correctly pronounce it thereby claiming her African identity.(lets not lie most of us are guilty of shortening our names to sound funky:Bimz,Bimzy...GUILTY!!!!)

I round off by encouraging us to stay true to our passion because its just a matter of time and we will SHINE....as long as we are DILLIGENT and CONSISTENT though!!!!

1 Response to "Much Ado About Lupita"

  1. So glad to read about Lupita here, Bimz! Oops, Bimbo. Lol. Lemme preserve my mother tongue jooooooor. Check out biodunodunukwe.wordpress.com for Preserving our Mother Language

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