This weekend, the actor marks the third anniversary of her children’s book, Sulwe, with a nationwide celebration.
“By making this book widely available, I’m hoping it’s going to get into the hands of the kids that need it the most, you know?” says Nyong’o, in her melodious way. “The power of imagination and storybooks cannot be underestimated.” The narrative follows a little girl named Sulwe, after the word forin the Kenyan language Luo. With skin the “color of midnight,” she doesn’t understand why her family members’ complexions hew closer to dawn, noon, and dusk.
”So it goes with Nyong’o, a glittering red-carpet presence from the moment she first arrived on the awards-show circuit in 2013, withHer force-of-nature performance in the film earned her an Academy Award for best supporting actress the following year. Sometime after that rush into the limelight, Nyong’o, who was born in Mexico and raised mostly in Kenya, where her parents are from, got to reflecting upon early experiences that warped her own self-perception.
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