Use movies to change Kenya and Africa's global perceptions

Film reel. [iStockphoto]

It was Chinua Achebe who once observed that "until the lions have their own historians, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter''. Kenya and Africa generally have not fully appreciated and tapped the potential of film industry.

The story about Africa, her people, her cultures, her struggles and triumphs has continued to be told through the eyes of Westerners who may never fully appreciate unique anthropological bases for certain phenomena which sometimes make them to fundamentally misrepresent and distort facts.