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THE WRITINGS OF BINYAVANGA WAINAINA
By Chimurenga on 21 November 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
I’M NOT WHO YOU THINK I’M NOT
By Chimurenga on 11 November 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
Serubiri Moses reflects on Binyavanga Wainaina’s refusal to fit neatly into neat identities.
I am a homosexual, Mum
A lost chapter from One Day I Will Write About This Place
IN MEMORIAM: Binyavanga Wainaina (1971 – 2019)
By Chimurenga on 27 September 2019 in Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A friend, a Chimurenga founding father, an award winning writer, author, journalist, chef, lover, a literary revolutionary and an inspiration. We pay tribute.
Search Sweet Country
By Chimurenga on 25 August 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a future Ghana by exposing its present, full of the jargons and certainties of one dimensional nation building.
Who invented truth
By Chimurenga on 27 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Tired of truth, I am. And metanarratives and more truth and post colonies.
A Day in the Life of Idi Amin
The hot dry breeze is lazy. It glides languorously collecting odd bits of paper, they tease the ground, threaten to take flight, tease the ground.
Where Is This Place
By Chimurenga on 27 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Keguro Macharia asks how might one describe where One Day I Will Write About This Place lives as it travels?
DISCOVERING HOME
By Chimurenga on 26 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
by Binyavanga Wainaina(Winner of The Caine Prize 2002) Cape Town – June, […]
Nothing was impossible for a writer like him
By Chimurenga on 25 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina’s Work
How To Be A Dictator
By Chimurenga on 25 May 2019 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
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 Rumba, via the Atlantic passage.
Pass Me the Microphone: Phoebe Boswell
By Chimurenga on 25 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, PASS, PASS Pop Up
Stories and sounds from the Swahili coast… sampling Binyavanga Wainaina’s How to Write about Africa.
The Second German Chronic is Here
The second German-language edition of the Chronic takes up the theme of new […]
Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan
By Chronic on 18 November 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Binyavanga Wainaina responds to an invitation to participate in Young Global Leaders 2007
Honouring Somaliness
Binyavanga Wainaina and Diriye Osman sit down in south London to speak of honouring Somaliness, navigating the globe as a homeless writer, freedom and love.
It’s only a matter of acceleration now
By Chronic on 1 July 2014 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
This is how the earth is arranged, or this is how the kora arranged and made the universe, and songs of numbers and words made souls…. Are you ready to interview Youssou N’Dour?
Africa39: Call for submissions
Words from Chimurenga friend and Chronic contributor, Binyavanga Wainaina. Read on: URGENT Call for submissions: […]