Binyavanga Wainaina

1 month ago | africasacountry.com | Binyavanga Wainaina |Brett Davidson |Sean Jacobs

On the afternoon of January 26, 2011, a few hours after David Kato was on a call with his friend Julien Pepe Onziema, his phone went off. At 1 pm on the same day, witnesses said, a man entered Kato’s house and struck him with a hammer twice on the head before fleeing in a vehicle. Kato, a prominent gay rights activist in Uganda, died on his way to a hospital in Kampala, Uganda. News of Kato’s murder was received with both dismay and shock.

Nov 21, 2024 | internazionale.it | Binyavanga Wainaina

Questo articolo è stato pubblicato il 3 ottobre 2014 nel numero 1071 di Internazionale. 1. Sto per intervistare Youssou N’Dour. Sono seduto negli studi della sua emittente televisiva 2. Questa settimana a Dakar hai imparato a controllare la respirazione nuotando nell’Atlantico, il bagnino ti ha mostrato come trascorre le giornate sulla spiaggetta di sassi vicino a Magicland, lungo la Corniche. 3.

Oct 16, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Binyavanga Wainaina |Jeremy Harding

Binyavanga Wainaina​ became an African literary celebrity in 2005, when Granta published his instructions for travel writers, journalists and aid workers on ‘how to write about Africa’. ‘Be sure to leave the impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed,’ he wrote.

Jun 3, 2024 | citylights.com | Binyavanga Wainaina |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Binyavanga Wainaina was many things in his short, frenetic life: memoirist and roving essayist, trailblazing editor and publisher, agitator and activist. . . . Wainaina's language [is] barbed, playful, inventive . . . his omnivorous brilliance matched by ambition and vision on a continental scale."–The New York Times "It's beginning to seem like Binyavanga Wainaina's satirical essay 'How to Write About Africa' might be, after the Bible, the most read English-language text on the African continent. . . .

Sep 22, 2023 | theafrica.co.za | Binyavanga Wainaina

Binyavanga Wainainas is a satirical view ofcharity and international development. It brings into focus the arrogance that comes with the Western worlds help in the global south. Mixed Read More News From nation