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HARDtalk: Wanuri Kahiu - Film Director

25/07/2018

Wanuri Kahiu - Film Director

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Wanuri Kahiu - Film Director

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Zeinab Badawi speaks to Kenyan film maker Wanuri Kahiu about what her work reveals about contemporary African society and how her films are viewed by wider audiences.

In August it will be twenty years since more than 200 people were killed in Kenya and Tanzania, when simultaneous truck bomb explosions were carried out on the US embassies in both countries. Zeinab Badawi speaks to acclaimed Kenyan film maker Wanuri Kahiu, who made an award-winning film on the tragedy. Her latest film depicting a lesbian love affair however has been banned in Kenya. What does her work tell us about contemporary African society and how her films are viewed by wider audiences?

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