The Film Mtu ni Watu is part of the Tandem Project ‘Mtu ni Watu – Disclosing Hidden Stories of Fieldwork’, by Hauke-Peter Vehrs and Richard Kiaka (Project A04 “Future Conservation“). It explores the often unacknowledged role of research assistants in anthropological fieldwork. The title ‘Mtu ni Watu’ refers to the Kenyan proverb ‘a person is people’, indicating that we never achieve a goal alone, but that our work is always situated in a broader social context.
After the German Premiere on 23 June 2025 at in the Off-Broadway Cinema in Cologne, the film was premiered on 21st August 2025 at Kenyatta University in Nairobi.
