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* HomophobicHateCrime: [[spoiler:Kena and Ziki are beated up by homophobes once they get outed as being lesbians. It's also mentioned earlier that LGBT+ people in Kenya are frequently victimes of these, such as corrective rape with queer women (although they thankfully escape this), and murder too.]]
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* HomophobicHateCrime: [[spoiler:Kena and Ziki are beated up by homophobes once they get outed as being lesbians. It's also mentioned earlier that LGBT+ people in Kenya are frequently victimes victims of these, such as corrective rape with queer women (although they thankfully escape this), and murder too.]]
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Not to be confused with the mandrill character in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''.
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Not to be confused with the mandrill character in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''.''Franchise/TheLionKing''.
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* HomophobicHateCrime: [[spoiler:Kena and Ziki are beated up by homophobes once outed as being lesbians.]]
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* HomophobicHateCrime: [[spoiler:Kena and Ziki are beated up by homophobes once they get outed as being lesbians.lesbians. It's also mentioned earlier that LGBT+ people in Kenya are frequently victimes of these, such as corrective rape with queer women (although they thankfully escape this), and murder too.]]
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* BilingualDialogue: Characters in the film often use English and Swahili alternately when speaking.
* BlamingTheVictim: As Kena's father notes, she's the one arrested along with Ziki after they get beaten up for being lesbians, with all their attackers allowed to go free.
* BlamingTheVictim: As Kena's father notes, she's the one arrested along with Ziki after they get beaten up for being lesbians, with all their attackers allowed to go free.
* BoyishShortHair: Kena wears her hair in a very short style, as part of her boyish style overall (she's a lesbian as well).
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* ButchLesbian: Kena.
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* ButchLesbian: Kena.Kena is a {{downplayed}} example, with very short hair and a more masculine clothing style, who's into [[LesbianJock playing soccer against guys she knows]], while not seen having female friends, [[OneOfTheBoys only them]]. She also only [[HatesWearingDresses reluctantly puts on a dress]] once, and then quickly takes it off. The film is about her relationship with another woman, while she doesn't show interest in men that way at all.
* DemonicPossession: {{Discussed}}, as Kena's mother thinks her lesbianism is caused by demons possessing her. Then her homophobic pastor prays before the congregation for exorcism.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Kena.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Kena.Kena is often shown unable to look away from Ziki, who's beautiful, before they become a couple.
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->'''Kena's mother, after Kena tries on a dress:''' Doesn't she look like a proper woman?
* FlowersOfRomance: An abandoned bus with purple flowers grown all over it. That good enough for ya?
* [[spoiler:ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Local gossip Mama Atim and the girl who works at the cafe out Kena and Ziki to the rest of the neighborhood.]]
* FlowersOfRomance: An abandoned bus with purple flowers grown all over it. That good enough for ya?
* [[spoiler:ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Local gossip Mama Atim and the girl who works at the cafe out Kena and Ziki to the rest of the neighborhood.]]
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* FlowersOfRomance: An abandoned bus
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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: [[spoiler:Local gossip Mama Atim and the girl who works at the cafe out Kena and Ziki to the rest of the neighborhood.
* GoodParents: Kena's dad isn't exactly happy to learn she's a lesbian. He makes it clear though it's the guys who beat her up who should have been arrested, standing by her when no one else does, not even her mom (who's response is to blame Kena's lesbianism on {{demonic possession}}, having the pastor pray that they will be exorcised by God).
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: [[CrapsackWorld Everyone]], but emphasis on [[spoiler: Mama Atim, who goes out of her way to out the girls, and later, as a patient of Kena's, refuses to let Kena touch her.]]
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: [[CrapsackWorld Everyone]], but emphasis on [[spoiler: Mama Atim, who goes out of her way to out the girls, and later, as a patient of Kena's, refuses to let Kena touch her.]] The pastor in their church preaches homophobia and denounces calls for LGBT+ rights, saying it's sinful too. Kena and Ziki are even [[spoiler:beaten by a homophobic mob after getting outed.]]
* HomophobicHateCrime: [[spoiler:Kena and Ziki are beated up by homophobes once outed as being lesbians.]]
* HomophobicHateCrime: [[spoiler:Kena and Ziki are beated up by homophobes once outed as being lesbians.]]
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* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Kena is more on the butch end of the spectrum and Ziki tends to be much more feminine.
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* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Kena is more on the butch end of the spectrum and Ziki tends to be much more feminine. The police later ask them mockingly when under arrest which one is "the man".
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* ParentsAreWrong: Kena's mother and Ziki's parents are shown as being in the wrong in not accepting their daughters' sexualities
* SecretRelationship: Same-sex marriage is illegal in Kenya and queer relationships are taboo. One of Kena's friends habitually makes fun of a local gay man, not knowing Kena herself is queer.
* SecretRelationship: Same-sex marriage is illegal in Kenya and queer relationships are taboo. One of Kena's friends habitually makes fun of a local gay man, not knowing Kena herself is queer.
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* OneOfTheBoys. Kena only has friends who are guys (she plays soccer with them) before she meets Ziki, a woman her age, with the two dating.
* OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire: [[spoiler:Kena and Ziki are caught kissing by Ziki's mom, who tells Kena's mom. This starts to snowball afterward, with them running away then a mob attacking the couple after a gossip tells them they're lesbians before they both get arrested.]]
* ParentsAreWrong: Kena's mother and Ziki's parents are shown as being in the wrong in not accepting their daughters'sexualities
sexualities.
* PreserveYourGays: [[spoiler:In the end, both Ziki and Kena survive and seem stronger when they seemingly reunite.]]
* QueerFlowers: The abandoned bus where Kena and Ziki go for intimacy has purple flowers growing over it. Lavendar is a longstanding symbol of homosexuality, more specifically violets with lesbians.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Ziki is a friendly young woman with her hair dyes in multiple colors, pink being the most prominent. She's more romantic and idealistic compared to Kena, her girlfriend.
* SecretlyGayActivity: Kena and Ziki go off together often, supposedly as just friends. They use being together privately to kiss and have sex.
* SecretRelationship: Same-sex marriage is illegal in Kenya and queer relationships are taboo. One of Kena's friends habitually makes fun of a local gay man, not knowing Kena herself is queer. Kena and Ziki keep the fact they're lovers a secret because of this.
* OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire: [[spoiler:Kena and Ziki are caught kissing by Ziki's mom, who tells Kena's mom. This starts to snowball afterward, with them running away then a mob attacking the couple after a gossip tells them they're lesbians before they both get arrested.]]
* ParentsAreWrong: Kena's mother and Ziki's parents are shown as being in the wrong in not accepting their daughters'
* PreserveYourGays: [[spoiler:In the end, both Ziki and Kena survive and seem stronger when they seemingly reunite.]]
* QueerFlowers: The abandoned bus where Kena and Ziki go for intimacy has purple flowers growing over it. Lavendar is a longstanding symbol of homosexuality, more specifically violets with lesbians.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Ziki is a friendly young woman with her hair dyes in multiple colors, pink being the most prominent. She's more romantic and idealistic compared to Kena, her girlfriend.
* SecretlyGayActivity: Kena and Ziki go off together often, supposedly as just friends. They use being together privately to kiss and have sex.
* SecretRelationship: Same-sex marriage is illegal in Kenya and queer relationships are taboo. One of Kena's friends habitually makes fun of a local gay man, not knowing Kena herself is queer. Kena and Ziki keep the fact they're lovers a secret because of this.
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* ThousandYardStare: Ziki in the police station.
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* ThousandYardStare: Ziki in the police station.station, after having been beaten up by homophobic guys before being arrested, stares vacantly at nothing.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kena has short hair and more masculine clothing, only reluctantly wearing a dress when Ziki urges her to. Ziki on the other hand is long-haired and likes feminine clothing.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kena has short hair and more masculine clothing, only reluctantly wearing a dress when Ziki urges her to. Ziki on the other hand is long-haired and likes feminine clothing.
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* PreserveYourGays: [[spoiler:In the end, both Ziki and Kena survive and seem stronger when they seemingly reunite.]]
* RoseHairedSweetie: Ziki's hair is a soft pink and she comes across as the more romantic, idealistic of the pair.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Ziki's hair is a soft pink and she comes across as the more romantic, idealistic of the pair.
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* YouGoGirl: Kena gets to play soccer with the guys because she's just as good as they are.
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* YouGoGirl: WouldHitAGirl: The homophobic mob don't hesitate to beat up Kena gets to play soccer with the guys and Ziki. Both are prominently bruised because she's just as good as they are.of it afterward.
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* AdultFear: The film centers around young adults and the majority of the movie is a typical sweet teen romance, but at the climax after [[spoiler: Mama Atim outs Kena and Ziki to a mob of their former friends and neighbors, they are dragged into and open field at night and beaten. Watching the scene, it's easy for the audience to feel the girls are about to be raped or even killed.]]
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-> '''Blacksta:''' Kena? She plays [soccer] like one of the guys!
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->'''Ziki:''' I've noticed the way you look at me.
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* ThirdWheel: All of Ziki's and Kena's friends - constantly.
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* ThirdWheel: All of Ziki's friends, much to their growing annoyance. It causes friction between them and Kena's friends - constantly.Kena.
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* RoseHairedSweetie: Not in any way over the top, but Ziki is definitely the one of the two who talks more.
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* RoseHairedSweetie: Not in any way over Ziki's hair is a soft pink and she comes across as the top, but Ziki is definitely the one more romantic, idealistic of the two who talks more.pair.
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->'''Kena's mom, to her dad:''' This is your fault! This child is infested with demons and it's your fault!
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* NosyNeighbor: Mama Atim, to a T. She spends all day hanging out at the local cafe and is a ''notorious'' gossip who ''delights'' in learning juicy secrets. She clearly relishes telling Kena that her divorced father's girlfriend is pregnant, emphasizing that Kena should pass the news onto her mother, and is [[spoiler: all too happy to lead a violent mob to Kena and Ziki's hideout once she learns they may be romantically involved.]] The one thing that can be said for Mama Atim is, as Kena's mother notes, she never lies.
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* BreakTheCutie: After receiving a brutal beatdown at the hands of a homophobic mob, Ziki sits in a police station, staring at the wall utterly silent, not even reacting to Kena's attempts to comfort her.
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* BreakTheCutie: After receiving a brutal beatdown at the hands of a homophobic mob, Ziki sits in a police station, staring at the wall utterly silent, not even reacting to Kena's attempts to comfort her. Double-whammy as Ziki was the one who wanted to be more relaxed with their relationship, while Kena wanted to be more secretive.
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* ChickMagnet: What most of the guys in the movie perceive themselves as, blind to the fact that the two main characters are otherwise invested.
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* ChickMagnet: What most of How Blacksta and the other guys in the movie perceive themselves as, blind film seem to the fact that the two main characters are otherwise invested.view themselves.
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* CheckPlease: When her friend first makes an attempt at her girlfriend and then calls slurs after a local gay man, Kena is understandably upsets and leaves the café they were hanging out at. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Without paying.]]
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* CheckPlease: When her friend first makes an attempt at her girlfriend and then calls slurs after a local gay man, Kena is understandably upsets and leaves Ziki meet at the café cafe and hear Mama Atim gossiping to the cashier about them, they were hanging out at. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Without paying.]]abandon their sodas half-finished to get away from her nosiness.
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* DarkestHour: Ziki and Kena are discovered, beaten up and turned in to the police.
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* DarkestHour: [[spoiler: Ziki and Kena are discovered, beaten up and turned in to the police.]]
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->'''Ziki:''' ''I've I've noticed the way you look at me.''
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* FastForwardToReunion: [[spoiler:Ziki and Kena. Duh.]]
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* FastForwardToReunion: [[spoiler:Ziki and Kena. Duh.Kena, presumably years later, as Kena is a practicing doctor and Ziki has the freedom to return to Kenya.]]
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* [[spoiler:ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Local gossip Mama Atim outs the girls after her daughter tells her, in revenge for Blacksta's interest in Kena.]]
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* [[spoiler:ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Local gossip Mama Atim outs and the girls after her daughter tells her, in revenge for Blacksta's interest in Kena.girl who works at the cafe out Kena and Ziki to the rest of the neighborhood.]]
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: [[CrapsackWorld Everyone, but emphasis on Mama Atim, who goes out of her way to out the girls, and later, as a patient of Kena's, refuses to let Kena touch her.]]
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: [[CrapsackWorld Everyone, Everyone]], but emphasis on [[spoiler: Mama Atim, who goes out of her way to out the girls, and later, as a patient of Kena's, refuses to let Kena touch her.]]
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* NotADate: It's illegal, y'all.
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* WhereDidWeGoWrong?: When Kena's mom finds out she's been dating Ziki, she accuses Kena's father of "making" Kena queer.
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* WhereDidWeGoWrong?: WhereDidWeGoWrong: When Kena's mom finds out she's been dating Ziki, she accuses Kena's father of "making" Kena queer.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Kena and Ziki's fathers are political rivals, in the middle of a campaign when the girls start seeing each other. Ziki's family also seems to disapprove of Kena because she comes from a poorer background than them. When Kena's father finds out Kena has been spending time with Ziki, he accuses her of undermining his campaign. However, [[spoiler: he also stands by her when he finds out she's in love with Ziki.]]
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Kena and Ziki's fathers are political rivals, in the middle of a campaign when the girls start seeing each other. Ziki's family also seems to disapprove of Kena because she comes from a poorer background than them. When Kena's father finds out Kena has been spending time with Ziki, he accuses her of undermining his campaign. However, [[spoiler: he also stands by her when he finds out she's in love with Ziki.]] Ziki's father also disapproves of Ziki's sexuality when he finds out about it, choosing to [[spoiler: send her away to England to get her away from Kena.]]
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* SecretRelationship: See above.
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* ParentsAreWrong: Kena's mother and Ziki's parents are shown as being in the wrong in not accepting their daughters' sexualities
* SecretRelationship:See above.Same-sex marriage is illegal in Kenya and queer relationships are taboo. One of Kena's friends habitually makes fun of a local gay man, not knowing Kena herself is queer.
* SecretRelationship:
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* WhereDidWeGoWrong?: When Kena's mom finds out she's been dating Ziki, she accuses Kena's father of "making" Kena queer.
->'''Kena's mom, to her dad:''' This is your fault! This child is infested with demons and it's your fault!
->'''Kena's mom, to her dad:''' This is your fault! This child is infested with demons and it's your fault!
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: After [[spoiler: Kena and Ziki are assaulted by a homophobic mob in the middle of the night]] the cops choose to make homophobic jokes at them in the police station, rather than show any concern for what happened to them.
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: After [[spoiler: Kena and Ziki are assaulted by a homophobic mob in the middle of the night]] the cops choose to make homophobic jokes at them in the police station, rather than show any concern for what happened to them. Furthermore, [[spoiler: they only arrest Ziki and Kena, and take no action against the mob who beat them up.]]
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* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Kena's mother never expressly disapproves of Kena's butch dressing style and hanging out with mostly guys, but she also encourages Kena to become more feminine.
->'''Kena's mother, after Kena tries on a dress:''' Doesn't she look like a proper woman?
->'''Kena's mother, after Kena tries on a dress:''' Doesn't she look like a proper woman?
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: After [[spoiler: Kena and Ziki are assaulted by a homophobic mob in the middle of the night]] the cops choose to make homophobic jokes at them in the police station, rather than show any concern for what happened to them.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Irritated with Blacksta's preference for Kena (despite Kena's lack of romantic or sexual interest in him), Blacksta's last hookup [[spoiler: helps out Kena and Ziki to the town, which results in their being assaulted by a mob, and Ziki's parents sending her away to London to get her away from Kena.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Tired of being ignored by Blacksta for Kena, Blacksta's prior flame [[spoiler: suggests to Mama Atim that Kena and Ziki are queer, which leads, of course, to Mama Atim outing them to everyone else and their getting picked up by the police.]]
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: [[CrapsackWorld Everyone.]]
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: [[CrapsackWorld Everyone.Everyone, but emphasis on Mama Atim, who goes out of her way to out the girls, and later, as a patient of Kena's, refuses to let Kena touch her.]]
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* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Mckena's full name is mentioned only once in the film; everyone calls her "Kena."
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* AdultFear: The film centers around young adults and the majority of the movie is a typical sweet teen romance, but at the climax after [[spoiler: Mama Azemi outs Kena and Ziki to a mob of their former friends and neighbors, they are dragged into and open field at night and beaten. Watching the scene, it's easy for the audience to feel the girls are about to be raped or even killed.]]
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* AdultFear: The film centers around young adults and the majority of the movie is a typical sweet teen romance, but at the climax after [[spoiler: Mama Azemi Atim outs Kena and Ziki to a mob of their former friends and neighbors, they are dragged into and open field at night and beaten. Watching the scene, it's easy for the audience to feel the girls are about to be raped or even killed.]]
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* BlessedWithSuck: Ziki gets to fulfill her dream of travelling... because her parents want to remove her from the woman she loves.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Ziki gets to fulfill her dream of travelling...traveling... because her parents want to remove her from the woman she loves.
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-> '''Blacksta:'''Kena? '''Blacksta:''' Kena? She plays [soccer] like one of the guys!
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* ComingOutStory: Ziki and Kena seem to be each other's first sweetheart, and no one else around them is aware of their queerness until [[spoiler:Mama Atemi rats them out.]]
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* ComingOutStory: Ziki and Kena seem to be each other's first sweetheart, and no one else around them is aware of their queerness until [[spoiler:Mama Atemi Atim rats them out.]]
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* DatePeepers: Ziki and Kena aren't especially discreet, but Mama Atemi, the local gossip, is far too interested in the development of their relationship.
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* DatePeepers: Ziki and Kena aren't especially discreet, but Mama Atemi, Atim, the local gossip, is far too interested in the development of their relationship.
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* [[spoiler:ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Local gossip Mama Azemi outs the girls after her daughter tells her, in revenge for Blacksta's interest in Kena.]]
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* [[spoiler:ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Local gossip Mama Azemi Atim outs the girls after her daughter tells her, in revenge for Blacksta's interest in Kena.]]
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* AdultFear: The film centers around young adults and the majority of the movie is a typical sweet teen romance, but at the climax after [[spoiler: Mama Azemi outs Kena and Ziki to a mob of their former friends and neighbors, they are dragged into and open field at night and beaten. Watching the scene, it's easy for the audience to feel the girls are about to be raped or even killed.]]
* ButchLesbian: Kena.
-> '''Blacksta:'''Kena? She plays [soccer] like one of the guys!
-> '''Blacksta:'''Kena? She plays [soccer] like one of the guys!
* ClosetGay: Both Kena and Ziki by necessity, given the homophobia where they live.
* [[spoiler:ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Local gossip Mama Azemi outs the girls after her daughter tells her, in revenge for Blacksta's interest in Kena.]]
* HatesWearingDresses: At Ziki's insistence, Kena purchases a lovely pink floral dress, and when she puts it on for church, her mother gushes about how nice it looks on her. Kena is not thrilled, and goes promptly back to her jeans and button-ups after the service.
->'''Kena:'''I told you, my body is allergic to dresses!
* HeldGaze: Kena and Ziki are gazing into each other's eyes for an ''extended'' period, with Ziki subtly urging Kena to kiss her, before Kena finally takes her aside in the club and plants one on her.
* HatesWearingDresses: At Ziki's insistence, Kena purchases a lovely pink floral dress, and when she puts it on for church, her mother gushes about how nice it looks on her. Kena is not thrilled, and goes promptly back to her jeans and button-ups after the service.
->'''Kena:'''I told you, my body is allergic to dresses!
* HeldGaze: Kena and Ziki are gazing into each other's eyes for an ''extended'' period, with Ziki subtly urging Kena to kiss her, before Kena finally takes her aside in the club and plants one on her.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Kena is more on the butch end of the spectrum and Ziki tends to be much more feminine.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"I would like to go on a real date." It was pretty clear they were both into each other before, but Ziki makes it perfectly clear with that line.]]]]
* YouGoGirl: Kena gets to play soccer with the guys because she's just as good as they are.
* YouGoGirl: Kena gets to play soccer with the guys because she's just as good as they are.
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* QueerShowGhetto: By law in Kenya.
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* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Averted. Though Kena and Ziki are beaten up and separated for years, in the end they survive and reunite.]]
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* ComingOutStory: In the most unwholesome way possible, due to almost everyone the main characters know being [[HeteronormativeCrusader Heternormative Crusaders.]]
* CoolOldGuy: Kenas father accepts her love for Ziki and tries to console her after she gets beaten up.
* CoolOldGuy: Kenas father accepts her love for Ziki and tries to console her after she gets beaten up.
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* ComingOutStory: In the most unwholesome way possible, due Ziki and Kena seem to almost everyone the main characters know being [[HeteronormativeCrusader Heternormative Crusaders.be each other's first sweetheart, and no one else around them is aware of their queerness until [[spoiler:Mama Atemi rats them out.]]
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* DatePeepers: Basically all of them - but to be fair, they really could have tried harder to be discrete.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Ziki's parents both strongly disapprove of her homosexuality. Her father hits her for it in public. Kena's mother also at least portrays disapproval, but her father is fine with it and tries to console her after she gets beaten up.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Kena. "I've noticed the way you look at me", says Ziki.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Ziki's parents both strongly disapprove of her homosexuality. Her father hits her for it in public. Kena's mother also at least portrays disapproval, but her father is fine with it and tries to console her after she gets beaten up.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Kena. "I've noticed the way you look at me", says Ziki.
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* DatePeepers: Basically all of them - Ziki and Kena aren't especially discreet, but to be fair, they really could have tried harder to be discrete.
Mama Atemi, the local gossip, is far too interested in the development of their relationship.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Kena and Ziki'sparents both strongly fathers are political rivals, in the middle of a campaign when the girls start seeing each other. Ziki's family also seems to disapprove of her homosexuality. Her father hits her for it in public. Kena because she comes from a poorer background than them. When Kena's mother also at least portrays disapproval, but her father is fine finds out Kena has been spending time with it and tries to console Ziki, he accuses her after she gets beaten up.
of undermining his campaign. However, [[spoiler: he also stands by her when he finds out she's in love with Ziki.]]
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* FakeRelationship: The love is not fake at all, but both know it can never become a public relationship. "I wish this was real", Ziki says at one point.
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* SorryImGay: [[spoiler:Kena to Blacksta: "Sorry, I love that girl." He seems to accept it.]]
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* SorryImGay: [[spoiler:Kena to Blacksta: "Sorry, I love that girl." He seems to accept it.]]"]]
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* TimeSkip: [[spoiler:It's not really clear how much time has passed at the end, but Kena seems to be a practicioning practicing doctor and Ziki has returned from London.]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"I would like to go on a real date", said by Ziki to Kena. date." It was pretty clear they were both into each other before, but at that point Ziki makes it becomes perfectly clear.clear with that line.]]
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Not to be confused with the mandrill character in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''.
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* RoseHairedSweetie: Not in any way over the top, but Ziki is definitely the one of the two who talks more.
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* CheckPlease: When her friend first makes an attempt at her girlfriend and then calls slurs after a local gay man, Kena is understandably upsets and leaves. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Without paying.]]
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* CheckPlease: When her friend first makes an attempt at her girlfriend and then calls slurs after a local gay man, Kena is understandably upsets and leaves.leaves the café they were hanging out at. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Without paying.]]
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spolier:If [[spoiler:If you ignore the bad stuff, Ziki gets to travel, Kena becomes a full-fledged doctor, and they are reunited at the end. If you ignore the bad stuff.]]
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* SorryImGay: [[spoiler:Kena to Blacksta: "Sorry, I love that girl."]] He seems to accept it.]]
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[If you ignore the bad stuff, Ziki gets to travel, Kena becomes a full-fledged doctor, and they are reunited at the end. If you ignore the bad stuff.]]
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* SorryImGay: [[spoiler:Kena to Blacksta: "Sorry, I love that girl."]] " He seems to accept it.]]
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A 2018 lesbian drama by Creator/Wanuri Kahiu, based on the short story "Jambula Tree" by Creator/Monica Arac de Nyeko.
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A 2018 lesbian drama by Creator/Wanuri Kahiu, Creator/WanuriKahiu, based on the short story "Jambula Tree" by Creator/Monica Arac de Nyeko.Creator/MonicaAracDeNyeko.
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* BadMoodRetreat: Kena returns to the abandoned bus when she gets angry at her friend's homophobic behaviour.
* CallBack: The movie starts with Kena on her skateboard. Then, a few things happen, and near the end she's on her skateboard again.
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* Criminals: Ziki and Kena, due to Kenya's laws against homosexuality. However, they are only seen sitting in a police station, never getting convicted - their real punishment [[spoiler:is their separation due to Ziki getting sent to London.]]
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* ComingOutStory: In the most unwholesome way possible, due to almost everyone the main characters know being [[HeteronormativeCrusader Heternormative Crusaders.]]
* CoolOldGuy: Kenas father accepts her love for Ziki and tries to console her after she gets beaten up.
* CostumePorn: The clothes in the movie look very good.
* CureYourGays: [[spoiler:Kena gets a church ceremony with all her family touching her and pleading to God to make her well again. She seems more annoyed than anything.]]
* CoolOldGuy: Kenas father accepts her love for Ziki and tries to console her after she gets beaten up.
* CostumePorn: The clothes in the movie look very good.
* CureYourGays: [[spoiler:Kena gets a church ceremony with all her family touching her and pleading to God to make her well again. She seems more annoyed than anything.]]
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* EmotionlessGirl: Kena is very subdued throughout the story, apart from when she is with Ziki.
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* FastForwardToReunion: [[spoiler:Ziki and Kena. Duh.]]
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: [[CrapsackWorld Everyone.]]
* JustifiedCriminal: Ziki and Kena, due to Kenya's laws against homosexuality. However, they are only seen sitting in a police station, never getting convicted - their real punishment [[spoiler:is their separation due to Ziki getting sent to London.]]
* LesbianJock: Kena, though a light version: She is very thin, plays football and liberally uses her skateboard.
* JustifiedCriminal: Ziki and Kena, due to Kenya's laws against homosexuality. However, they are only seen sitting in a police station, never getting convicted - their real punishment [[spoiler:is their separation due to Ziki getting sent to London.]]
* LesbianJock: Kena, though a light version: She is very thin, plays football and liberally uses her skateboard.
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* SorryImGay: [[spoiler:Kena to Blacksta: "Sorry, I love that girl."]] He seems to accept it.]]
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[If you ignore the bad stuff, Ziki gets to travel, Kena becomes a full-fledged doctor, and they are reunited at the end. If you ignore the bad stuff.]]
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* TimeSkip: [[spoiler:It's not really clear how much time has passed at the end, but Kena seems to be a practicioning doctor and Ziki has returned from London.]]
* PreserveYourGays: [[spoiler:In the end, both Ziki and Kena survive and seem stronger when they seemingly reunite.]]
* QueerShowGhetto: By law in Kenya.
* PreserveYourGays: [[spoiler:In the end, both Ziki and Kena survive and seem stronger when they seemingly reunite.]]
* QueerShowGhetto: By law in Kenya.
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* BannedInChina: Banned in Kenya, where the movie takes placed and was shot, due to the country's strict anti-homosexuality laws. The director took the Kenyan government to court for it so the film could at least get a limited run in order to qualify for the Academy Awards - and actually won! ...and then it wasn't selected as Kenya's pick for that year.
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->''"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives."''
A 2018 lesbian drama by Creator/Wanuri Kahiu, based on the short story "Jambula Tree" by Creator/Monica Arac de Nyeko.
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!!This film includes examples of:
* AmIJustAToyToYou: How Kena thinks Ziki thinks about her before she is sent away. [[spoiler:Averted, Ziki returns to Kena at the end.]]
* BannedInChina: Banned in Kenya, where the movie takes placed and was shot, due to the country's strict anti-homosexuality laws. The director took the Kenyan government to court for it so the film could at least get a limited run in order to qualify for the Academy Awards - and actually won! ...and then it wasn't selected as Kenya's pick for that year.
* BlessedWithSuck: Ziki gets to fulfill her dream of travelling... because her parents want to remove her from the woman she loves.
* BreakTheCutie: After receiving a brutal beatdown at the hands of a homophobic mob, Ziki sits in a police station, staring at the wall utterly silent, not even reacting to Kena's attempts to comfort her.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Averted. Though Kena and Ziki are beaten up and separated for years, in the end they survive and reunite.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Ziki comes back from her mandatory holiday.]]
* ChickMagnet: What most of the guys in the movie perceive themselves as, blind to the fact that the two main characters are otherwise invested.
* TheCity: The movie never mentions another name but that of the neighbourhood, Slopes, but the Nairobi skyline features prominently in several scenes.
* Criminals: Ziki and Kena, due to Kenya's laws against homosexuality. However, they are only seen sitting in a police station, never getting convicted - their real punishment [[spoiler:is their separation due to Ziki getting sent to London.]]
* CheckPlease: When her friend first makes an attempt at her girlfriend and then calls slurs after a local gay man, Kena is understandably upsets and leaves. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Without paying.]]
* DarkestHour: Ziki and Kena are discovered, beaten up and turned in to the police.
* DatePeepers: Basically all of them - but to be fair, they really could have tried harder to be discrete.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Ziki's parents both strongly disapprove of her homosexuality. Her father hits her for it in public. Kena's mother also at least portrays disapproval, but her father is fine with it and tries to console her after she gets beaten up.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Kena. "I've noticed the way you look at me", says Ziki.
* FakeRelationship: The love is not fake at all, but both know it can never become a public relationship. "I wish this was real", Ziki says at one point.
* FlowersOfRomance: An abandoned bus with purple flowers grown all over it. That good enough for ya?
* LocalHangout: The café where Kena plays cards with Blacksta and his friend in the beginning. Seems like a nice place, only has the drawback of a gossipy old lady sitting at the counter seemingly 24/7.
* MonochromeCasting: The movie is set in Nairobi, Kenya, so everyone is black.
* NotADate: It's illegal, y'all.
* SecretRelationship: See above.
* ThirdWheel: All of Ziki's and Kena's friends - constantly.
* ThousandYardStare: Ziki in the police station.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"I would like to go on a real date", said by Ziki to Kena. It was pretty clear they were both into each other before, but at that point it becomes perfectly clear.]]
->''"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives."''
A 2018 lesbian drama by Creator/Wanuri Kahiu, based on the short story "Jambula Tree" by Creator/Monica Arac de Nyeko.
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!!This film includes examples of:
* AmIJustAToyToYou: How Kena thinks Ziki thinks about her before she is sent away. [[spoiler:Averted, Ziki returns to Kena at the end.]]
* BannedInChina: Banned in Kenya, where the movie takes placed and was shot, due to the country's strict anti-homosexuality laws. The director took the Kenyan government to court for it so the film could at least get a limited run in order to qualify for the Academy Awards - and actually won! ...and then it wasn't selected as Kenya's pick for that year.
* BlessedWithSuck: Ziki gets to fulfill her dream of travelling... because her parents want to remove her from the woman she loves.
* BreakTheCutie: After receiving a brutal beatdown at the hands of a homophobic mob, Ziki sits in a police station, staring at the wall utterly silent, not even reacting to Kena's attempts to comfort her.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Averted. Though Kena and Ziki are beaten up and separated for years, in the end they survive and reunite.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Ziki comes back from her mandatory holiday.]]
* ChickMagnet: What most of the guys in the movie perceive themselves as, blind to the fact that the two main characters are otherwise invested.
* TheCity: The movie never mentions another name but that of the neighbourhood, Slopes, but the Nairobi skyline features prominently in several scenes.
* Criminals: Ziki and Kena, due to Kenya's laws against homosexuality. However, they are only seen sitting in a police station, never getting convicted - their real punishment [[spoiler:is their separation due to Ziki getting sent to London.]]
* CheckPlease: When her friend first makes an attempt at her girlfriend and then calls slurs after a local gay man, Kena is understandably upsets and leaves. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Without paying.]]
* DarkestHour: Ziki and Kena are discovered, beaten up and turned in to the police.
* DatePeepers: Basically all of them - but to be fair, they really could have tried harder to be discrete.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Ziki's parents both strongly disapprove of her homosexuality. Her father hits her for it in public. Kena's mother also at least portrays disapproval, but her father is fine with it and tries to console her after she gets beaten up.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Kena. "I've noticed the way you look at me", says Ziki.
* FakeRelationship: The love is not fake at all, but both know it can never become a public relationship. "I wish this was real", Ziki says at one point.
* FlowersOfRomance: An abandoned bus with purple flowers grown all over it. That good enough for ya?
* LocalHangout: The café where Kena plays cards with Blacksta and his friend in the beginning. Seems like a nice place, only has the drawback of a gossipy old lady sitting at the counter seemingly 24/7.
* MonochromeCasting: The movie is set in Nairobi, Kenya, so everyone is black.
* NotADate: It's illegal, y'all.
* SecretRelationship: See above.
* ThirdWheel: All of Ziki's and Kena's friends - constantly.
* ThousandYardStare: Ziki in the police station.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"I would like to go on a real date", said by Ziki to Kena. It was pretty clear they were both into each other before, but at that point it becomes perfectly clear.]]
