Country Queen – African fashion

Country Queen, Kenya’s first Netflix original, is a drama that explores Kenya’s complex gold mining history while offering parallel stories about a complicated family. After a decade of self-exile, Nairobi event director Akitha returns to his rural hometown of Tshiranga, presumably in the lead role of a film played by Melissa Kiplagat.
The six-episode first season begins with Akisa organizing an opportunity for Eco Rock, an important gold mining company in Kenya.
The business is headed by Vivian Shibala (Nini Wasera), and Akitha secures the contract with the help of Max (Blessing Lungaho), who is also Vivian’s husband and Akisa’s boyfriend.

This opportunity is so important to Akisa’s profession that she sees things as they happen, as Max accidentally tells his wife about their relationship and an irate man shows up at the party to slander Vivian and blame the land company. I didn’t want to see what would happen… Grab it.

But that’s how events unfold. Already a dreadful night ensued when she receives a surprise call from her aunt Salome (Mutoni Gatecha), telling her that her father is seriously ill. By dawn, Akisa is back in town, her father who kidnapped her child ten years before her, her mother who seems unwilling to see her, and her father.

At the same time as Akisa’s return, an invasion of Tiranga by Ecolock in search of gold occurs. The company does what capitalism despises most, with the ambition to use the weak to enrich the strong and turn entire towns into gold mines. Villagers are tricked into abandoning the town and its land in exchange for a small payment.

Starving children are put into actual pits in the ground in exchange for unreliable payments.
And conflicting interests are tearing families apart. The largest parcel of land at the center of Eko-Rok’s proposed operation belongs to Akitha’s father, Mwalim (Raymond O’Fra), with Eko-Rok pointing his brother in the crosshairs, and his He refused to sell it, despite the fact that it threatened to destroy his way…of life.

As if navigating her complicated relationship with her parents, Esther, played by Mumbi Kaigwa, wasn’t hard enough, Akisa comes home to this mess.
Except for her Aunt Salome, no one in her past appeared to be by Akisa’s side beside a man named Caro (Melvin Alsa).

Kyalo still has feelings for his childhood friend Akisa, who doesn’t know why she left home or why they had a child together.
However, he is about to marry the town’s doctor, Anna (Sheila Muniba of Rafiki fame), and Akisa’s reappearance inevitably strains their relationship.

synopsis
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Trapped between two worlds when an invasive mining company threatens the survival of her village, a city girl returns home and must overcome her painful past to save her village and, in the process, save her village. You have to find yourself.

directed by: Vincent Mbaya, Brian Munen, David “Tosh” Gitonga
Written by: Wanjiri Gakul, Oprah Oyugi, Lydia Matata, Kimani Wawell, Charlene Wangari, Ian Kichinji, Mukhamzi Chao Mwatela, Florence Onyango, Annette Shadeya, Kamau Wa Ndungu
Produced by: Kamau Wa Nudung
photograph: Andrew Mungai
Edited by: Mukaiwawi Mwakaba and Alex Kamau
starring: Melissa Kiplagat, Melvin Artha, Nini Wasera

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