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NOR Interviews: Nick Mwaluko
Producer: Selly Thiam/
Nick Mwaluko talks about transitioning from female to male after immigrating to the United States from Kenya.
“Could I have lived in the other form? I still would have clean water…the three meals a day.”
Nick Mwaluko was born in Kenya and currently lives in New York City.
He was interviewed in New York City. Nick has also written for the Huffington Post and further shed light on who he is in the article “Becoming a Man“.
NOR Interviews: Nick Mwaluko [6:32m]: BIO:
Nick Mwalukowas born in Tanzania, East Africa and raised in Kenya. After arriving to New York City, Nick entered into Columbia University on fellowship. Transitioning from female to male in his third year of study, he remained on the Dean’s List and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Nick’s play WAAFRIKA, which is about a Kenyan woman’s affair with a white female PeaceCorps Volunteer, premiered with critical acclaim and has won numerous awards. He is finishing his Masters in Fine Arts with a Concentration in Playwriting from Columbia University.
Photos of Nick Mwaluko: Sulai Lopez
Photos of Selly Thiam: Olive Demetrius
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this was an awesome awesome interview.
i love the NOR pieces.
[...] A fantastic U People interview from 9/23/08 with Mwaluko in which he discusses passing as a boy in Kenya and transitioning from F to M as an immigrant in the US. [...]