If you Google, ‘African film’ and ‘sex,’ you largely find articles about sexual violence. But, why are our lives being portrayed this way?  

Enter Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu. It’s her ‘life mission’ to show African sexuality on film, as she does in ‘Rafiki,’ a beautiful lesbian love story that is banned in her home country. 

“In every project, I truly try to figure out what does it mean to show tenderness and love? What does it mean to show sensuality for us?”

In a wide-ranging chat about creativity, tradition, patriarchy and pleasure, Wanuri also shares the hot African film moment that set her on this path, and why it matters.

The Adventures From the Bedrooms of African Women Podcast is a production of AQ Studios in partnership with Masi Media. Selly Thiam is the AQ Studios CEO and Mercy Githaiga is our operations manager, Frederica Boswell is the senior producer, audio editors are Tevin Sudi and Mercy Barno and Lucas Ngao is our social media manager.

Our theme music is Damn by Ria Boss and music from this episode comes from Epidemic sounds.

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