Movie Seen! Pumzi: Does Kenya's first sci-film hold up?
With Pumzi set to be Kenya's first science fiction(sci-fi) film, Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu surely had her work cut out for her to ensure she set the standards high and didn't disappoint Kenyan audiences. Although there was controversy surrounding another Kenyan film Otto: The Bloodbath , a horror film(which I'm yet to see) it does seem Kenyan filmmakers are finally exploring other film genres. Though I'm skeptical as to the claims that Otto was Kenya's first horror film, I am pretty sure there hasn't been a Kenyan sci-fi flick before. Set 35 years after World War 3, the movie takes place in a futuristic East Africa that has been devastated by the effects of drought and global warming. Kenya is now a barren wasteland in which (as we see on a newspaper headline) people have to trek for days in search of water. Millions of people have perished and there are few places where one can escape the drought. A Natural History Museum, which also acts as a sa...