The love that dared to speak its name

07 November 2016 - 09:54
By Jessamy Calkin

There are three cinemas in Botswana, a country of 2.2million people and three million cows. At one of them, in the Riverwalk Mall, in the capital, Gaborone, an auspicious event is taking place: the African premiere of Amma Asante's film A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo as Seretse Khama, Botswana's first president, and Rosamund Pike as his white British wife, Ruth.

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