she won't have to be imprisoned for loving women and that one day in kenya she might be able to marry the woman he loves. us through. and melanie you know we really see there in your piece the range of views on this issue talk with us a little bit more about the public perception of this particular case in kenya is there a public debate about the subject the topic is widely debated especially in the local media and in big cities like nairobi where we have large al-tikriti i.q. communities which have really been fighting to be seen as equal citizens for years now but of course we also have the rural parts of the country which are still very traditional very conservative and where same sex intimacy is seen as something an african many people there don't question a lot of which is basically