18 December 2020
Coerced Revenge (2019)
Also now streaming on Showmax is Kenyan film Coerced Revenge, a terrorism drama that follows Lulu (newcomer Vivian Anyango), a young woman who is forced to help her uncle carry out a terrorist attack on one of the biggest universities in Kenya.
Xavier Ywaya (40 Sticks, Too Early for Birds) plays Shaka, Lulu’s radicalised uncle, who converts to Islam while in Pakistan and comes back to the country with a plan to carry out his revenge on an institution that failed him. Gitau Ngogoyo (Sense8, House of Lungula) and Carol Midimo (Kina, Makutano Junction) co-star.
Kabiyesi, now on Showmax
Between Worlds, now streaming
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