Kenyan documentary spotlights activist torn between family and the struggle


  • World
  • Wednesday, 21 Oct 2020

FILE PHOTO: Kenyan social-political activist Boniface Mwangi arrives for the screening of the Kenyan documentary 'Softie' at the Prestige Cinema in Nairobi, Kenya October 16, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan documentary "Softie" opens in 2013 with Njeri Mwangi standing in a doorway, light illuminating a sleepy toddler on her hip as her husband Boniface sieves buckets of clotted blood outside.

The next day, he dumps the blood and coaxes a herd of pigs to feast on it outside parliament to demonstrate against yet another pay rise for legislators, dubbed "MPigs" by protesters.

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