The first time Wanuri Kahiu remembers seeing African people onscreen falling in love was when she was a teenager. “Americans were falling in love and Europeans were falling in love,” she said, “but ...

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 ...

And without the determination of its creator and passionate cast, the beautiful love story might have stayed locked in a cupboard at the offices of the country’s Film Classification Board. Their ...

Wanuri Kahiu made a splash with her Sundance sci-fi short “Pumzi,” a haunting parable about a world without water. Her LGBT love story, “Rafiki,” which premieres in Un Certain Regard, was banned in ...

The filmmaker is determined to combat reductive depictions of the African continent. Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu is determined to combat long-standing depictions of the African continent in defeat.

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 ...

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 ...

When Wanuri Kahiu first received the script for Netflix’s “Look Both Ways,” the Kenyan director felt like she was, in a certain sense, reading her own story. The dramedy focuses on Natalie (Lili ...