Uganda’s Kefas Brand impresses in Netflix’s ‘Life on our Planet’ series

The show features our very own Rodney Kefas Namisi aka Kefas Brand as a co-narrator alongside the legendary Morgan Freeman.

'Life on our Planet' chronicles the 4 billion-year journey on Earth, told through its ruling dynasties, its underdogs, and the cataclysmic events that reshaped it.

Through the eight episodes, the series sells itself as “the story of life’s epic battle to conquer and survive on planet Earth.

The series is stacked with the latest palaeontology research and graphics technology to bring long-extinct creatures back to life.

Directed by Adam Chapman, the show’s visual effects are by Industrial Light & Magic while Steven Spielberg is aboard as executive producer.

Throughout the show, Kefas Brand is given a lot of prominence, as he authoritatively recounts the story of Earth’s species, about 99% of which are believed to be lost in our deep past.

The series spans four billion years and five mass extinction events. The visuals are stunning but it’s the live-action sequences that truly wow. Crocodiles leap at wildebeest, Sidewinder snakes pounce on rodents, and Snow leopards fall from vertiginous cliffs.

Kafas’ journey in the film goes back to 2007 Kefas when he started taking Drama classes.

As a kid, he says he always loved watching a Nickelodeon TV show 'Thundermans' in which Jack Griffo (Max Thundermans) was his favourite character.wh