{"id":86009,"date":"2021-09-24T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T11:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=86009"},"modified":"2021-09-24T12:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T11:05:29","slug":"kenya-bans-film-about-two-gay-lovers-declares-it-blasphemous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/24\/kenya-bans-film-about-two-gay-lovers-declares-it-blasphemous\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya bans film about two gay lovers, declares it blasphemous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenyan Government has banned a film about two gay lovers branding the movie an &#8216;affront to culture and identity&#8217; and &#8216;demeaning of Christianity&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya Film Classification Board on Thursday September 23, said the documentary was &#8216;unacceptable and an affront to [the] culture and identity of the deeply Christian country which has long criminalised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/12\/cameroonian-bobrisky-shakiro-one-other-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-for-attempted-homosexuality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homosexuality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by a Kenyan filmmaker, &#8216;I Am Samuel&#8217; depicts a romantic relationship between two men living in Nairobi and has aroused the ire of the country&#8217;s censors for promoting &#8220;same-sex marriage as an acceptable way of life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities said the documentary sought to propagate &#8220;values that are in dissonance with our constitution, culture values and norms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86011 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/kunlenet07\/2021\/09\/24\/I-Am-Samuel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/kunlenet07\/2021\/09\/24\/I-Am-Samuel.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/kunlenet07\/2021\/09\/24\/I-Am-Samuel-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/kunlenet07\/2021\/09\/24\/I-Am-Samuel-768x738.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Worse still, the production is demeaning of Christianity as two gay men in the film purport to conduct a religious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/01\/video-nigerian-woman-recounts-how-she-found-out-her-husband-is-gay-three-years-after-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marriage<\/a> invoking the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,&#8221; KFCB boss Christopher Wambua said in a statement, declaring it &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/09\/man-arrested-in-sokoto-over-alleged-blasphemous-comment-against-prophet-muhammad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blasphemous<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any attempt to exhibit, distribute, broadcast or possess the restricted film within the Republic of Kenya shall, therefore, be met with the full force of the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Am Samuel&#8217; is the second gay-themed film to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/21\/kano-govt-bans-movies-showing-kidnapping-drug-addiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned<\/a> in Kenya, following a 2018 decision to stop cinemas from showing &#8216;Rafiki,&#8221; a lesbian love story which became the first Kenyan movie to premiere at the Cannes film festival.<\/p>\n<p>The ban on &#8216;Rafiki&#8217; (&#8216;friend&#8217; in Swahili) was later overturned by a court, and the film opened to sold-out audiences in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>Homosexuality in several African countries is a taboo, and gays often face discrimination or persecution with penalties that include imprisonment of up to 14 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenyan Government has banned a film about two gay lovers branding the movie an &#8216;affront to culture and identity&#8217; and &#8216;demeaning of Christianity&#8217;. 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