Khuli Chana pens a beautiful message to his wife, Lamiez Holworthy, on her birthday.

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”

Wanuri Kahui had the courage of her convictions when she made Rafiki, the award-winning but controversial Kenyan film.

Rafiki winner of 16 international awards, is now streaming first on Showmax, just in time for Pride Month.

“Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives,” but Kena (Samantha Mugatsia, who won Best Actress at Carthage 2018 and FESPACO 2019 for the role) and Ziki (Sheila Munyiva) long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls are forced to choose between happiness and safety.

Rafiki has a 94% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Variety calling it “impossible not to celebrate”; RogerEbert.com “a lyrical ode to finding a kindred spirit amidst an uncaring majority”; AV Club “bursting with life”; and Washington Post “a small revelation, not least because it marks the breakthrough of a filmmaker of such exhilarating, cheerfully courageous vision.”