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October 2022

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    How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina review – a fierce literary talent taken too soon

    In this selection of essays, the prize-winning Kenyan author, who died in 2019, shines a light on his continent without cliche

June 2019

  • Binyavanga Wainaina at the Rome international festival of literature in Italy in 2015.

    Binyavanga Wainaina obituary

    Kenyan writer and LGBT activist who made a revolutionary impact on literature from and about the African continent

May 2019

  • FILES-KENYA-GAY-RIGHTS-LITERATURE<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 27, 2014 Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina looks on during an interview with the AFP, in Nairobi. - Internationally-renowned Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, whose high-profile coming out in a country that criminalises homosexuality made him an icon for gay rights across Africa, has died aged 48, his publishing house said on May 22, 2019. He died just days before Kenya’s High Court was expected to deliver a long-awaited ruling on whether to abolish colonial-era anti-gay laws. (Photo by Simon MAINA / AFP)SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images

    Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author and gay rights activist, dies aged 48

    One of Africa’s best-known authors and gay rights activists died on Tuesday after an illness

July 2015

  • 2015 Caine prize

    Guardian Africa network
    Sci-fi, creative writing and wizards – Africa's best authors discuss modern literature

    What is ‘African literature’? How easy is it to become an author on the continent? What we learned from this year’s Caine prize shortlist

March 2014

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    Binyavanga Wainaina on aid, power and the politics of development in Africa – video

    Kenyan writer tells Eliza Anyangwe why west’s notion of ‘development’ and its jargons fail to capture the reality of Africa

February 2014

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Nigerian authors condemn country's new anti-gay law

  • Binyavanga Wainaina

    Binyavanga Wainaina interview: coming out in Kenya

January 2014

  • In praise of ...
    In praise of … Binyavanga Wainaina

  • kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina

    Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina declares: 'I am homosexual'

November 2011

  • Binyavanga Wainaina

    Kenyan author attacks insularity of British fiction

  • Binyavanga Wainaina

    One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina – review

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