Naliaka is Going

According to the film story line, Naliaka is a fourteen-year-old school dropout who arrives in Nairobi to work as house-help in order to sustain her family and see her brother through college. Like most young people, she is full of dreams of a brighter future and against all odds she improves her spoken and written English with the assistance of her employer’s children. She also learns typing. However, when her father learns she has quit her job and hopes to seek employment as a typist, he decides to marry her off to his fellow-drinking mate. But Naliaka escapes back to the city where she begins a long and difficult journey towards self-emancipation.

The film has a strong cast of local professionals such as Benta Stephanie Ochieng, who stars as Naliaka. Benta Ochieng is a popular local actor and Ken Ambani, the co-star, is a familiar face in our television screens. After screenings in Nairobi, Naliaka was shown in Mombasa and Kisumu during August after which it went international. Screenings were done in Holland, Canada, South Africa and Belgium.

'Naliaka is going' was screened at Nairobi Cinema twice a day between July 30 and August 10, 2004 . This is the first time a local film ran in a theatre for that long

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