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Tag: Binyavanga Wainaina

THE WRITINGS OF BINYAVANGA WAINAINA

Launching a new collection of writings by the late, great Binyavanga Wainaina

I’M NOT WHO YOU THINK I’M NOT

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)

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

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

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

Keguro Macharia asks how might one describe where One Day I Will Write About This Place lives as it travels?

DISCOVERING HOME

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

Binyavanga-Wainaina

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

Stories and sounds from the Swahili coast… sampling Binyavanga Wainaina’s How to Write about Africa.

The Second German Chronic is Here

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Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan

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

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?

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