In the new film “Ayaanle”, a Somali actor living in a poor neighbourhood in Nairobi dreams of a breakthrough role to take him to Hollywood, but is frustrated when he’s only ever cast as a pirate or terrorist.“I only have two lines,” the character – whose name, Ayaanle, is also the film’s title – complains bitterly. “‘I kill you’ and ‘Allahu Akbar’.”
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