Binyavanga Wainaina: Talking About Writing About Africa.

We highly recommend reading the entirety of this piece over on Granta.com, or in the print issue of the 40th Anniversary Edition of Granta, which publishes on 2 May. Binyavanga Wainaina is a Bard Fellow and the Director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African Literature and Languages at Bard College.

It’s a sombre mood in the entire region as Africa has once again lost one of its sons. Binyavanga Wainaina was an award-winning author whose works have sent his fame far and beyond. He wrote One Day I Will Write About This Place together with other award-winning essays including I am a homosexual, mum and How to write about Africa.

Kenyan author and activist Binyavanga Wainaina has died, at the age of forty-eight. Wainaina passed away at 10 pm on Tuesday night at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi after a stroke, a family friend has confirmed to The JRB. Wainaina was born in Nakuru, Kenya, in 1971, and studied commerce at the University of Transkei in South Africa from 1991.

Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenya’s literary phenom, is dead at 48, and I’m transported to Nairobi. It is August of 2007, night has fallen over the equatorial city, and Binyavanga is reading from the latest edition of Kwani?, the journal he helped found after winning the Caine Prize for African Writing five years earlier. That prize put him on the map, but it was How To Write About Africa, the.

One of Africa’s best known authors and gay rights activists, Binyavanga Wainaina, has died following an illness. He was 48. The Kenyan author, who lifted the profile of the LGBTQ community.

Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina is inexhaustible, a public intellectual very much engaged with the literary and political worlds. His memoir, One Day I Will Write About This Place, published this July by Graywolf Press, chronicles the multiplicity of his middle-class African childhood: home squared, we call it, your clan, your home, the nation of your origin.

By Kidogo Dermott. Binyavanga Wainaina author of the vaunted essay “How To Write About Africa” (Granta 92) has provided us a sterling example of how to do just that. Although the essay delivers its lessons with tongue firmly planted in cheek. However, Wainaina’s memoir “One Day I Will Write About This Place” teaches us more directly and is a shining example.

Wainaina was a critical thinker and showed off this trait in his satirical essay “How to Write About Africa”, published in Granta magazine in 2006, which attracted wide attention. Binyavanga was a homos3xual and publicly came out in 2014. The prolific writer was cremated yesterday at Kariokaor.

Binyavanga Wainaina was the award-winning Kenyan writer whose humorous, incisive books and essays explored themes of post-colonialism, gender and sexual identity. Wainaina chose to come out as a.

In 2005, when Binyavanga Wainaina was 34, he saw an edition of the British literary journal Granta dedicated to Africa. What he read so appalled him in its litany of tired African tropes that.

Don’t write to me if you think that it really does.. Look at verbal irony in Julius Caesar and then enjoy it taken to its utmost limits in Binyavanga Wainaina’s How to Write About Africa.

Discovering Home by Binyavanga Wainaina What a beautiful journey. From the seeming encumbrance of metered school life in South Africa the to the sights, sounds and people of home, Binyavanga details in his short story the (re)discovery of home, one’s roots, one’s people, in a very descriptive, witty, engaging and emotive style.