Christopher Odhiambo Okinda is a prominent Kenyan actor, film director, producer, author and radio presenter.
Background
He is the founder of the theatre film company Something Productions,www.somethingproductions.net, which produces plays in his mother"s native Dholuo language, and is actively involved in the making of films and documentaries, the latter for both television and radio.
Career
He featured in the Oscar award-winning movie The Constant Gardener working alongside Ralph Fiennes and White Maasai. Born in the Kenyan Coastal city of Mombasa to Elizabeth Apiyo Aruwa and Aloise Okindah, he was brought up by and large by his mother as his father is polygamous and did not really feature in his life as a child.This however changed in the latter years of his life as he and his father became extremely close. He attended Aga Khan primary school in Parklands, Kenya, before moving to Our Lady of Mercy Primary School in 1992, then to Saint Peter"s Mumias Boys Primary in 1994.
In 1996, he moved to Street Mary"s School, Yala, to start his high school education.
His tertiary education was in two phases. He"s an alumnus of both Alliance Francaise and The University of Nairobi, where he studied Journalism and Media Studies.
He was also the creative director of Hot 96 fm in Kenya. He left Hot 96 in December 2014, shocking the radio fraternity.
He is currently in talks with several radio stations all interested in getting the services of the straight talking, raspy voiced radio presenter.
Okinda lives in Nairobi.