Ekwa Msangi 'yar fim ce ta Tanzanian-Amurka, furodusa, kuma marubuciya. [1][2] Tana koyar Production da Al'adu a Jami'ar New York .[3]
An haifi Msangi ga baƙi a Oakland, California . Iyayenta malaman Fulbright ne waɗanda suka halarci Jami'ar Stanford a cikin shekarun 1980. girma ne a Kenya bayan iyalinta suka koma can lokacin da take 'yar shekara biyar.[4]
A shekara ta 1998, an yarda da Msangi a cikin NYU Tisch School of the Arts inda ta sami digiri na farko a fina-finai da talabijin. Da farko ba ta da ƙarfin hali kuma ta rikice, hanyar da ta yi ta canza bayan ta ɗauki darasi da masanin tarihin fina-finai na Afirka Manthia Diawara ya ba ta. Ta sami MA a cikin fina-finai na Afirka daga Gallatin School of Individualized Study a wannan jami'a.
fara aikinta na samarwa, sannan ta ci gaba da yin gajeren fina-finai masu cin nasara kamar wasan kwaikwayo na Soko Sonko (The Market King) da jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin ga masu watsa shirye-shirye na Kenya.[5][6] Fim dinta sun kasance zaɓin hukuma a bukukuwan duniya da yawa ciki har da New York African da Durban International . fi saninta da fim din Farewell Amor, wanda aka fara a bikin fina-finai na Sundance na 2020 kuma ya sami yabo mai mahimmanci.