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THE WRITINGS OF BINYAVANGA WAINAINA

Launching a new collection of writings by the late, great

IN MEMORIAM: Binyavanga Wainaina (1971 – 2019)

A friend, a Chimurenga founding father, an award winning writer,

I’M NOT WHO YOU THINK I’M NOT

Serubiri Moses reflects on Binyavanga Wainaina’s refusal to fit neatly

Chimurenga 2 – Dis-Covering Home [run nigga run] (July 2002)

Home, lost and found. Takes by Mahmood Mamdani, Julian Jonker,

Search Sweet Country

In conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a

Nothing was impossible for a writer like him

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina’s Work

How To Be A Dictator

Binyavanga Wainaina presents 16 Rules for Big Man aspirations

An excerpt from ‘Hell Is In Bed With Mrs Preprah’

Binyavanga Wainaina charts the aesthetics of black hair, beership and

Pass Me the Microphone: Phoebe Boswell

Stories and sounds from the Swahili coast… sampling Binyavanga Wainaina’s

Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan

Binyavanga Wainaina responds to an invitation to participate in Young

Honouring Somaliness

Binyavanga Wainaina and Diriye Osman sit down in south London

Chimurenga 2 – Dis-Covering Home [run nigga run] (July 2002)

Home, lost and found. Takes by Mahmood Mamdani, Julian Jonker,

I am a homosexual, Mum

A lost chapter from One Day I Will Write About

Chimurenga 15 – The Curriculum Is Everything (June 2010)

Presented in the form of a textbook, Chimurenga 15 simultaneously

Chimurenga 14 – Everyone Has Their Indian (April 2009)

This issue features words and images on the Third World

Chimurenga 6 – Orphans of Fanon (October 2004)

A series of conversations, real and imagined, on the “pitfalls

Chimurenga 10 – Futbol, Politricks and Ostentatious Cripples (December 2006)

We scope the stadia, markets, ngandas and banlieues to spotlight

Chimurenga 3 – Biko in Parliament (November 2002)

“Mandela was not the only head of state taken in

About Chimurenga Magazine

Who invented truth

Tired of truth, I am. And metanarratives and more truth

A Day in the Life of Idi Amin

The hot dry breeze is lazy. It glides languorously collecting

Where Is This Place

Keguro Macharia asks how might one describe where One Day

DISCOVERING HOME

The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest Togo Soccer team Story

EVERY JOURNEY IS A READING

Calabar Winch

The Second German Chronic is Here

You Can’t Get Lost in the Samoosa Triangle*

CHIMURENGA@20: WAITING FOR WAME

I am hungry. Tempted. In pain. I reach for the

Pan Africanism in Katanga

Becoming Chimamanda’s Boy

Which Africa Are We Talking About?

How Close Are You To This Place?

The Chronic: Graphic Stories (July 2014)

For the new issue of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the

The Chronic (July 2014)

It’s only a matter of acceleration now

This is how the earth is arranged, or this is

Africa39: Call for submissions

The Chronic: The Philanthropic Complex (August 2013)

Writers in the broadsheet include Jon Soske, Paula Akugizibwe, Yves

Contributors

Chimurenga 15 – The Curriculum Is Everything (June 2010)

Presented in the form of a textbook, Chimurenga 15 simultaneously

Chimurenga 14 – Everyone Has Their Indian (April 2009)

This issue features words and images on the Third World

Chimurenga 10 – Futbol, Politricks and Ostentatious Cripples (December 2006)

We scope the stadia, markets, ngandas and banlieues to spotlight

Chimurenga 6 – Orphans of Fanon (October 2004)

A series of conversations, real and imagined, on the “pitfalls

Chimurenga 3 – Biko in Parliament (November 2002)

“Mandela was not the only head of state taken in
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