Controversy is rocking Kenya over the swift decision by the country's film board to ban a gay music video from being viewed or shared by its citizens.
The Kenya Films Classification Board (KFCB) has banned a gay video shot by an artist in Kenya going by the name Art Attack
It has also requested that Google block it so it will no longer be accessible in the country but their request is yet to be granted.
The Chief Executive of KFCB, Ezekiel Mutua, said the board expected Google to comply with any requests on flagged content within a week of reporting, but that the company remained non-committal on whether or not it would honor its request.
The gay music video shows a well-toned young man leaning over his tattooed male lover in bed.
Also, two pretty young women exchange kisses on a park bench, one putting a ring on the other's wedding finger, as the vocalist sings: "I can't change, even if I tried, even if I wanted to."
The song "Same Love" was originally recorded by American hip hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis during the 2012 campaign to legalise same-sex marriage in Washington State.
A remix by Kenyan rap artist Art Attack set out to provoke similar debate in the conservative East African nation, where homosexual acts are punishable by up to 14 years in jail.
"We expected that this will create controversy, we expected that a lot of people will talk about it but we didn't expect the amount of publicity it has received," Art Attack told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview. "The erotic scenes were meant to show that these people also fall in love."
Upon release, Kenyan film board kicked against the idea, banning the video.
However, interest in the video has been fuelled by the Kenya Film Classification Board's (KFCB) Feb. 23 decision to ban it and ask Google Kenya to take it down.
"The video currently circulating on YouTube consists of lyrics that strongly advocate for gay rights in Kenya, complete with graphic sexual scenes between people of the same gender, as well as depiction of nudity and pornography," the board's chief executive, Ezekiel Mutua, told a news conference.
The video remains online and has been watched on YouTube more than 120,000 times in three weeks.
The hashtag #KenyanGayVideo has been trending on Twitter.
Many people have attacked the film board for banning the video claiming that gay rights ust be respected. However others say homosexuals should be beaten to death.
Kenya's film board is well known for its conservatism. It also banned the award-winning 2014 film 'Stories of Our Lives', which dramatises the lives of gays and lesbians in Kenya, and the erotic 2015 film 'Fifty Shades of Grey'.
The board threatened to ban the streaming service Netflix in January, saying it threatened Kenya's moral values and national security.
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