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SUMMARY:Same Love: A Kenyan Gay Music Video as an African Queer Imaginary 
 - Dr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Leeds)
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DESCRIPTION:In February 2016\, a group of Nairobi-based artists under the 
 name Art Attack released a music video titled Same Love. They described it
  as ‘a Kenyan song about same sex rights’\, while at the same time cla
 iming that the song had a pan-African scope. The banning of the video by t
 he Kenya Film Classification Board could not prevent its online distributi
 on\, and since its release the video has provoked considerable public deba
 te. In this paper I give a close reading of the images and lyrics of the v
 ideo\, focusing on the references to religion\, the claim towards a Christ
 ian notion of love\, the pan-African and global framing of its message\, a
 nd its representation of queerness. In other words\, I examine how Same Lo
 ve presents a particular African queer imaginary and is a world making dev
 ice.\n\nPlease refer to our website for further information www.africanstu
 dies.ox.ac.uk/events \nSpeakers:\nDr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Le
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LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room\, Gateway Building)\, 62 Woods
 tock Road OX2 6JF
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/6bc5748b-89d8-47ce-8395-38a5919f49e2/
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