Bonisile JOHN KANI (born 30 August 1943) is a South African actor, activist, author, director and award-winning playwright. The more famous of his plays are Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, both co-written with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona. Kani's work has been widely performed around the world, including New York, where he and Winston Ntshona won a Tony Award in 1975 for Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island. He is known for portraying T'Chaka in Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Black Panther (2018), Rafiki in the 2019 remake of The Lion King and Colonel Ulenga in the Netflix film Murder Mystery (2019) with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston.