So this battle is basically hands down in favor of nairobi... I mean nairobi and Kenya is mentioned and featured every time in a bunch of Hollywood movies and animations. People who watch movies here often can bear me witness.
Kenyans have also played a role in Hollywood for a long time, here are some early kenyans to feature in Hollywood movies
Belinda owino in Django
Charles Malinda plays Sampson, in the 1967 movie
Africa Texas Style.The 109 minute color movie was the forerunner to the TV series,
Cowboy in Africa. The TV series was based on a similar premise spread across 26 episodes.
Karara Muhoro is the ultimate Kenyan hustler. He is an actor, a scientist, and former former US Army National Guard. The chemistry
professor has three movies in
his filmography; in Phone Booth (2002), The Legend of Tillamook’s Gold (2006) and Congo (1995) and the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2003). He is also a voice actor in the video game Resident Evil 5 (2009).
Between 2004 and 2005, Damaris
raked up four credits as an actress and then simply disappeared from the art. She acted in
The White Maasai (2005) as Asma, in
The Constant Gardener as Jomo’s Wife, in Project Daddy, and in the Transit as the Public Clinic Doctor.
It was the TV Series
Better Days that thrust
Raymond Ofula to fame locally but he was already a big name internationally. Ofula plays a Village Leader in Tomb Raider, the same one that Lenny Juma appeared in. He had one previous role in To
Walk with Lions (1999) as Chief Haji Abu Jibril.
Kitchen Toto (1987) is a British drama film set in Kenya in 1950. The movie’s lead character is a young Kenyan boy called Mwangi, played Edwin Mahinda. T
Mahinda’s other film roles include
The Lion of Africa (1988) and
White Mischief (1987).