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"Nawi" has scored an Oscar nomination for the Best International Feature Film category. The movie centres on a 13-year-old Nawi whose father wants to sell her to an older man for cattle.
Nawi has to fight against the tradition of child marriage to pursue her dream of joining high school. Shot in Turkana, the film tackles an issue of child marriage, which is common in rural Turkana. Michelle Lemuya, a winner for the Best Young/Promising Actor for Lead at the just-concluded Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), played the character of Nawi.
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