"They did not ask me to change any scenes of intimacy," Wanuri Kahiu said after the film was banned in its home country. By Rhonda Richford Wanuri Kahiu’s lesbian love story Rafiki, the first Kenyan ...

A boisterous, joyful film about a terribly sad situation, writer-director Wanuri Kahiu’s “Rafiki” is the tale of two lovestruck young women in contemporary Nairobi, where homosexuality is illegal and ...

Even in the middle of the day, in middle of the week, the theater was completely packed. Hundreds had come to watch Rafiki, a movie about two young Kenyan women who are full of life, joy and wonder.

Banned in its home country, this delicate love story breaks no new ground, but feels progressive nonetheless. In “Rafiki,” a pair of young women in a small town fall in love, then face the ...

I am Benjamin Crabtree, and I am a Feature Writer for Collider. I am also the creator of CrabtreeCinema.com and cohost of the upcoming Celluloid Noise Podcast. Beyond writing and talking about cinema, ...

When a movie is banned by a government, then allowed to be distributed after a supreme court reversal, it gets my attention. When that movie is about a same sex love story, and is foreign, I’m even ...

Kenyans are turning out en masse to cinemas to watch ‘Rafiki’ a movie about love between two women that was previously banned in the country. The movie which was banned from screening in the country ...

We're going to talk about a new movie out this week called "Rafiki." It's a love story between two teenage girls. And it's based in Kenya, where gay sex is against the law. It's the first Kenyan film ...