Career-minded Kenya McQueen is set up on a blind date with architect Brian Kelly, but backs out when she realizes that he is white. Impressed with his work on a friend's mansion, McQueen hires Kelly to design her new garden -- and he sweeps her off her feet. But, after her friends...
With great bounds being made for the LGBTQ+ community, including thelegalization of gay marriage in the United States, more representation in film is necessary. Over the past couple of decades, theLGBTQ+ community has seen a surge in representationon the silver screen. While this is a wonderful...
Set in colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, this dramatic film explores themes of race, friendship, and loyalty, with Hudson playing a British settler and Sidney Poitier as his childhood friend turned rebel leader. The movie has been praised for tackling complex social issues and its auth...
Starring Samantha Mugatsia and Sheila Munyiva as burgeoning lovers, Rafiki was banned in Kenya "due to its homosexual theme and clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law." As a result, of course, much of the rest of the queer world embraced it as a symbol against ...
Tales of star-crossed lovers from opposing families are as old as time, but Wanuri Kahiu'sRafikiis unique – groundbreaking, even – in transporting the story to a lesbian romance in Nairobi. It's an even more powerful statement considering homosexuality is still currently illegal in Kenya, and...
Based on a true story,Captain Phillipsearned six Oscar nominations while turning up the oceanic action. In 2009, Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) leads a commercial crew on a cargo ship traveling from Oman to Kenya. While traversing through waters off the coast of Somalia, they’re hunted...
DJ Rap (real name: Charissa Saverio) is one of the undisputed queen of the turntables. She owns, records for, runs and A&Rs two labels Proper Talent and Improper Talent, a producer, recording artist and an actor. She has been a prime mover on the Drum & Bass scene but not content ...
for a family friend whose name she doesn’t even know, you’re making a grave mistake. Claustrophobic and messy to the point of resembling a horror movie,offers an intimate, deeply unsettling—and hilarious—portrait of a queer college almost-graduate struggling to find her place in the world...
Born on March 10, 1979 in Nairobi, Kenya, Gathegi quickly established himself in Hollywood despite having a somewhat late start to his film career after spending time on stage in the early portion of his acting journey. Actors can be typecast after playing a gangster role, but that didn't ...
Khaligraph Jones, real name Brian Robert Ouko, is one of the most popular recording artistes inKenya. A very talented artiste, he is able to fluently rap in both Swahili and English. Khaligraph recorded his first song at the age of thirteen and has since recorded over 400 songs. At the ...