Kenya Bans Music Video Saying It Promotes Gay Rights

Kenyan state regulators have banned a locally produced song and accompanying music video that call for equal treatment of LGBT individuals, something regulators say violates Kenya’s anti-homosexuality law. The song is a remix of the American single “Same Love,” released in 2012 by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis at the height of the same-sex marriage debate in the United States. Kenyan recording artists Art Attack and Nicole Florence Kutoto released the video for their “Same Love...

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