"As a teenager auditioning in Nairobi, she was told that her skin was “too dark” for her to be on television. Lupita is Luo, a member of the Nilotic tribe that migrated south from Sudan. They are one of the darkest-skinned of the African tribes. Although the Luo are a sizable ethnic group in Kenya, known for their intelligence and scholarship, the Luo language, like most other tribal tongues, was forbidden at Kenyan schools. She had to speak English or Swahili. “So there was a certain amount of shame attached to my mother tongue. . . . I developed this discomfort in all things that identified me as ethnically Luo when I was a teenager.” Was she put off by being told her skin was too dark for her to act? “No,” she says, with a determined look on her face. “It didn’t ring true. I just thought, I need to find another way.”" - #LupitaNyongo for @voguemagazine October 2015 ... Get more pics and cover story highlights on the site! http://theybf.me/1Kss733

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