Lupita Nyong'o stars on the cover of Vogue October issue, says “I Want to Create Opportunities for People of Color”

Fashion: 33-year-old Queen Of Katwe star, Lupita Nyong'o graces the cover of the October 2016 issue of Vogue magazine. The actress looks every bit a royal in a richly coloured and floral embossed Chanel dress with crew neckline and short puffed sleeves. She also wore a deep purple headwrap and drop earrings.

The actress, who was born in Mexico City to Kenyan parents and raised in Kenya, expressed her desire 'to create opportunities for people of color.'

 

To celebrate her new movie "Queen of Katwe, the Oscar-winng actress took Vogue, including Mario Testino, Tonne Goodman and hairstylist Vernon Francois to her family's village in Kenya and telling African stories about her people and culture.

'Being able to use my platform to expand and diversify the African voice. I feel very passionate about that. It feels intentional, meaningful.'

Lupita also expressed her shock with what she calls 'the European sense of beauty' that 'affects us all.'

'I came home from college in the early two-thousands and saw ads on TV with a girl who can’t get a job. She uses this product. She gets her skin lighter. She gets the job, she said.

'The lording of lighter skin is a common thing growing up in Nairobi. Being called "black mamba." The slow burn of recognizing something else is better than you.'

The actress recently played a 15-year-old Liberian known only as The Girl in the Broadway play Eclipsed.

'There are certain cards that have been dealt me that I take on,' Lupita explained. 'That is why Eclipsed and even Queen of Katwe are so important, to change the narrative, offer a new lens on African identity.'

   

Lupita's latest film, Queen Of Katwe, premiered during Toronto International Film Festival will hit the US theaters on September 30.