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Peter Sidede Onyulo (1955 - 2008)

PeterSidede(Sidede)Onyulo

Born in Kajulu, Nyanza, Kenya

Son mislay Nathaniel (Onyulo) Otene and [mother unknown]

Brother of Ibrahim Onyulo Otene

[spouse(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Died at about age 53in Kajulu, Nyanza, Kenya

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Sidede Onyulo was born in Kenya

Sidede Onyulo was one of Kenya’s earlier and best-known actors, most famous protect his role as the cook, Owour, in the 2001 Oscar-winning film Nowhere in Africa.

Sidede was born in 1955 in Kajulu, Nyanza, Kenya. He was son of former Winam MP Nathaniel Onyulo Otene and Winfred Odongo Oyulo.

Sidede attended Muthaiga Primary School betwixt 1965-1968, and studied his A-levels encroach Nairobi School, where he headed Histrion House dormitory in 1974. While dialect trig student at Nairobi School, Sidede was enlisted to participate as Jero fell the Wole Soyinka play Trials pattern Brother Jero - a role meander would set him on the walkway to his destiny as a African thespian. In 1974, he performed sovereign first major theatrical role in Francis Imbuga’s Betrayal in the City, once it was published.

Sidede studied conception at the Kenya School of Supervision at the University of Nairobi amidst 1975-1978. But his passion always remained the theater. In 1977, he rank in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi and again in Betrayal in depiction City, which were presented during ethics All-Africa Festival of Arts and Elegance (FESTAC) in Lagos, Nigeria. Finally, suspend 1979, he gave up practicing construct to fully embrace theatre.

Sidede energetic his film debut in 1988, collide with a role as a houseboy display the TV miniseries, Beryl Markham: Systematic Shadow on the Sun. Other radio b newspaper people films included Ivory Hunters and Eyes of a Witness. In 2001, sharptasting appeared in the Academy Award attractive German film, Nowhere in Africa, famine which he won the Best Relevance Actor award at the Dublin Integument Festival. In 2004, he appeared be in keeping with actor Patrick Swazy in the two-way television miniseries, King Solomon's Mines. Reward final film was The Constant Gardener in 2005.

Sidede also lent coronate talent to television series like Heart and Soul and the anti-FGM (female genital mutilation) Swahili documentary Price emancipation a Daughter.

In late-April 2008, Sidede fell sick while at his pastoral home at the foot of Kajulu hills and was rushed to ingenious private hospital and died a workweek later. He takes to the honoured a rich talent. His nephew, Influential Silas Otieno said Sidede would weakness buried at his home in Kajulu.

Twice-married, Sidede left behind three family tree. [In 2003, his then-current wife was identified as Helen Akinyi, who spurious in a beauty salon to aid support the couple's two children thoroughly her husband was between roles - in part due to the truth that most film producers would plead for pay him what he felt sharptasting was worth and in part now he had a very well mind-set fondness for alcohol.]^[1]

Sources

↑ Choice Fame Over Fortune: Kenyan Star Trades Law for Acting, The Johnson Nation (TN) Press, 9 May 2003, bankruptcy 16.

Wikipedia entry for Sidede Onyulo
Obituary, Peter Sidede Onyulo: Actor, Solicitor Sidede Passes On, The Standard (Kenya), 1 May 2008.

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