Wanuri Kahiu does not have a personal copy of her 2018 film Rafiki, her best known work yet, and the first Kenyan film to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival. The laws in her country prevent her from possessing, distributing or broadcasting her film in Kenya due to its LGBT content, she says in an interview to The Hindu. So, all of her copies are held by her producer who lives outside the country.
The Kenyan filmmaker, the recipient of the ‘Spirit of Cinema’ award at the 28th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), seems to take all of this in her stride. She does not consider even her act of suing Kenya’s censor board as courageous.
