Meena Nanji: Kenya as Paradise; London as Post Punk; Los Angeles as Definitely Weird

Meena Nanji: Kenya as Paradise; London as Post Punk; Los Angeles as Definitely WeirdMeena Nanji is a video artist / filmmaker and social activist.

CHAPTER ONE

“My family is of Indian heritage. My parents were born in Kenya as was I. When I was about nine, we moved to England.

“Kenya was paradise. It took me a long time to get over the fact that I wasn’t living there anymore. But finally at some point, I think in my mid-20s, I realized that it wasn’t only the place that I was missing, but it was the place at that time.

“I was there in the `60s — Kenya was newly independent and there was a lot of optimism and hope. It was the ‘Age of Aquarius’ around the world, i.e ‘peace, love and harmony’ — or at least that was the aspiration. This was true in Kenya as well, and even though I was really young, I absorbed it.

“My father’s name was Sultan. My mother is Zarina. I have two older siblings — my brother Anil and my sister Ameeta.

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