Kalasha award-winning documentary, \u2018The People Shall\u2019, directed by Mark Maina and Nick Wambugu, will screen at the Cinema Vend\u00f4me in Brussels during the S&D Africa Days 2026 organised by the European Parliament on July 1.<\/p>\n
The event set to take place over the course of two days, June 30 to July 1, is aimed at renewing partnerships with Africa as \u201cequal partners.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a time when Africa is too often viewed through narrow and one-sided narratives, this initiative reflects a key political priority for the S&D Group: to advance a renewed, forward-looking partnership of equals between Europe and Africa based on equality, solidarity, social justice and shared progress,\u201d according to the information packet provided by organisers.<\/p>\n
The documentary, which premiered in 2025, documents the 2024 youth-led anti-Finance Bill protests and captures how the Kenyan youth used digital activism, creativity, and courage to demand government accountability.<\/p>\n
According to the S&D programme, the screening will take place from 7 pm to 9 pm (GMT2) under the event \u201cPublic Film debate \u2013 The power of people and stories\u201d with Mark Maina expected to be in attendance.<\/p>\n
Since its release, the film has received widespread acclaim, including at the recent Kalasha Awards ceremony, attended by President Ruto, where the film was honoured for its unflinching storytelling. It won two awards<\/a>: Best Documentary and Best Editing at the ceremony.<\/p>\n The film\u2019s social media handle announced the news with the caption: \u201cWhat began in the streets of Kenya now enters another room of power, carrying the memory of those who stood, those who spoke, those who were hurt and those we must never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n The post \u2018The People Shall\u2019 gets screening at European Parliament Africa event<\/a> appeared first on KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kalasha award-winning documentary, \u2018The People Shall\u2019, directed by Mark Maina and Nick Wambugu, will screen at the Cinema Vend\u00f4me in Brussels during the S&D Africa Days 2026 organised by the European Parliament on July 1. The event set to take place over the course of two days, June 30 to July 1, is aimed at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}