#27: Bilal Mwaura on Discipline, the Spirituality of Performance and being like Water

In this powerful episode, the duo host the brilliant Actor and Writer Bilal Mwaura and talk film, fatherhood, faith and so much more! From the creation of Uradi, Kauzi, Nganya and numerous theatre and film characters and productions to tales of tours, maasai shukas, sheikhs, the captain’s principle, poetry, prayer and esoteric conversations with artists from across Africa. Unafraid to explore drifts, doubts and despondency, the episode touches on philosophies, parenting, purpose, lucidity and the balance of practice and dogma in religion. Bilal shares lessons from teachers, men with books, ladies with heart and the woman that is the wind under his wings. The episode picks gems from scars, scalds, revelations, elevations, full circle moments, wilderness experiences and hairy things.

 

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Bilal Mwaura is an Africa Movie Academy award nominated actor, a respected and award winning Kenyan thespian most recognized for leading his roles in films such as 40 Sticks and Uradi (both on Netflix) and in the recently released Kenyan films - Grand Little Lie and Mission To Rescue. Mwaura is a prolific theatre actor and writer who is impassioned about Swahili - both as a reader and speaker, a storyteller, an actor’s minder, a thinker and a stage and screen writer.

 

Show Notes

- Buzz Central Kenya Bilal Mwaura interview

- URADI Film

- BBB Tony Mochama Episode

Books:

- Siri Sirini by Rocha M. Chimera

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