“Where are you going?” asks the young son of Boniface Mwangi, as his father heads out to work with a purposeful stride. “I’m going to topple the government,” comes the…
Having premiered in competition at Sundance — where it won a well-deserved prize for its fleet, efficient editing — “Softie” subsequently played the digital editions of CPH:DOX and Hot Docs, and would likely have completed a more extensive festival run in a normal year. Now receiving a digital release in the U.S. this week, with PBS’s documentary outlet POV having secured broadcast rights, the film should attract a keen, politically engaged audience, particularly at a time when the U.S.
Mwangi is unfazed by such danger, having begun his career as a photojournalist documenting the extreme violence surrounding the country’s 2007 elections, marked as they were by vicious Kikuyu-Luo tribal conflict, cynically stoked by the competing parties. It’s a divisionary tactic, Mwangi explains, that was started by British colonialists and maintained by Kenyan leaders, and has come to define the country’s corrupt political landscape.
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