Terrible! Hollywood Unapologetically Mocks Kenya Again. See Details

American film makers are once “teasing” Kenya. Their action will utterly surprise you.

Hollywood is making a film about Eastleigh which will feature Oscar nominee and Captain Phillips star, Bakhad Abdi. (In case you watched Captain Phillips, Abdi was the leader of the Somali pirates).

Eye In the Sky (the movie about Eastleigh) is a thriller film which features a drone warfare in Nairobi; a drone is being used to target a group of terrorist who plan to carry out a suicide attack.

Generally, Kenyans ought to be happy Hollywood is releasing a movie about Eastleigh, right? Wrong! Actually Hollywood has snubbed Kenya and decided to shoot the film in South Africa.

So why create a movie about Kenya and go shoot it in South Africa? This is not even the first time Hollywood has done this. If you can recall a movie dubbed The Ghost And The Darkness (a fictionalized account about the two lions that attacked and killed workers at Tsavo during the building of the Kenya-Uganda Railway in 1898.), Hollywood shot it at Songimvelo Game Reserve in South Africa, rather than Kenya.

Anyway, the movie will hit the cinema screens soon (date not released). Sure I will be very interested to watch it.