Lupita speaks out on why she can’t cook ugali
Oscar Award winning actress Lupita Nyong’o has sensationally revealed that she does not know how to cook her homeland’s staple food ugali.
The actress, in a television interview, confessed that even though she has a ‘mwiko‘, she just can’t get the combination of maize flour and hot water right.
Lupita also revealed that despite all the dining and wining with Hollywood celebrities, what she misses most about home is a good, white lump of ugali.
She made the revelation during a sit-down with NTV’s Larry Madowo.
Here are the excerpts of the interview.
LARRY: Do you miss living here? Is there anything you miss about Kenya?
LUPITA: I miss ugali a lot, becuase I also don’t know how to cook ugali.
LARRY: What do you mean you don’t know how to cook Ugali?
LUPITA: Yaa I don’t know how to cook Ugali.
LARRY: That’s terrible.
LUPITA: I know it’s really, really bad. I have a mwiko but I don’t know how to cook ugali.
The actress is currently on a homecoming tour that will include art mentorship activities, as well as an awareness campaign on wildlife conservancy efforts in the country.
During the tour, she will feature in various conservation adverts for television and billboards. She will also host a Sh10, 000 per person dinner gala on Thursday.