{"id":1173850,"date":"2022-08-11T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T08:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/lupita-nyongo-celebrates-fathers-win-in-kenya-polls\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T08:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T08:04:14","slug":"lupita-nyongo-celebrates-fathers-win-in-kenya-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/lupita-nyongo-celebrates-fathers-win-in-kenya-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupita Nyong&#8217;o celebrates father&#8217;s win in Kenya polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Lupita Nyong&#8217;o and his father Anyang Nyong&#8217;o. Photo source: Nairobi News<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Lupita Nyong'o celebrates father's win in Kenya polls\" title=\"Lupita Nyong'o celebrates father's win in Kenya polls\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong\u2019o has congratulated her father on winning a second and final term as governor of Kenya\u2019s Kisumu county.<\/p>\n<p>Her father, Anyang Nyong\u2019o, was announced winner on Wednesday following Kenya\u2019s general elections on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar-winning actor was raised in Kenya, before moving to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Nyong\u2019o, who won a best-supporting actress Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, thanked the people of Kisumu for \u201ctheir overwhelming support\u201d to her father at the polls.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ABICH MORO! Congratulations to my Daddy and THANK YOU to the people of Kisumu for their overwhelming support at the polls. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnyangNyongo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AnyangNyongo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/5moro?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#5moro<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TichTire?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TichTire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FEmgmGhB3j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/FEmgmGhB3j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lupita Nyong\u2019o (@Lupita_Nyongo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lupita_Nyongo\/status\/1557375023937101824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/lupita-nyongo-celebrates-fathers-win-in-kenya-polls\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lupita Nyong&#8217;o and his father Anyang Nyong&#8217;o. Photo source: Nairobi News Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong\u2019o has congratulated her father on winning a second and final term as governor of Kenya\u2019s Kisumu county. Her father, Anyang Nyong\u2019o, was announced winner on Wednesday following Kenya\u2019s general elections on Tuesday. The Oscar-winning actor was raised in Kenya, before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1173857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2018,4732,2806,11142,23015,7416,309],"class_list":["post-1173850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-celebrates","tag-fathers","tag-kenya","tag-lupita","tag-nyongo","tag-polls","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}