Anne Mungai

Dr. Anne G. Mungai (born 1957) was a Kenyan film director. She is best known for her feature length film, Saikati. She died on 24 October 2025 at the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH), where she was receiving treatment. Following her death, colleagues and students at Kenyatta University expressed their condolences and paid tribute to her academic legacy.

Directorial career Anne Mungai’s directing career began in 1980 with her first short entitled Nkomani Clinic. Since then, she has directed many short- and medium-length films, as well as her first feature film Saïkati. Some of the scenes added to the film went against Mungai’s wishes for the cultural content and story that she had in mind, though Mungai still succeeded in getting the main message across to her audience. Saikati looks at these topics from an intersectional point of view. (i.e. through depictions of class, gender, sexuality, age, and ethnicity)