Lupitan Nyong'o has been appointed a global ambassador for the wildlife conservation charity, WildAid. And she told journalists that she is "proud" of her Kenyan heritage and "part of that heritage is the wildlife".


She is in Kenya this morning to promote her work with the WildAid, and made the red carpet after journalists waited long enough for her arrival.

Ms Nyong'o is equally starring in and producing a film version of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book Americanah, which deals in part with the politics of hair.