“Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Don’t get bogged down with precise descriptions”. Or it is hot and steamy with very short people who eat primates. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. “In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country.
2014 TED talk “ Conversations with Baba”.Īuthor, cultural commentator and satirist Binyavanga WainainaĦ. is “the moral reservoir of human diversity, human aid, human dignity”. “ We Must Free Our Imaginations” video essay, 2014.Ĥ. Being an Afropolitan, I am here to stay”. “I’m an African, I was brought up here, my home is here. Binyavanga Wainaina talks to Stephen Sackur on HARDtalk about why he decided to come out as gay.ģ. “I tried to file it away separately and have a place in my imagination to deal with it and not act on it outside of them ”. “African characters should be colourful, exotic, larger than life – but empty inside, with no dialogue, no conflicts or resolutions in their stories, no depth or quirks to confuse the cause”. Here’s our selection of Binyavanga’s quotes.ġ. In 2014 Binyavanga was named one of Time magazine’s 100 “Most Influential People in the World”.īinyavanga influenced many young African writers, and his writings have been praised for invoking fundamental questions about the West’s coverage of Africa, cultural bias, sexuality, and identity.
In 2003 he became the founding editor of African literary magazine, Kwani?, the first literary magazine in east Africa since Transition Magazine. In 2002 he won the Caine Prize for African writing. Writing fearlessly across a range of topics - from politics to international aid, cultural heritage and redefining sexuality, this is a remarkable illustration of a writer at the height of his power.Binyavanga Wainaina, one of Kenya’s most famous writers passed away on May 21. After his death in 2019, this ground-breaking collection brings together his pioneering writing on the African continent for the first time.Ī rule-breaker full of wry satire and piercing wisdom, this collection includes many of Binyavanga's most critically acclaimed pieces, including the viral satirical sensation How to Write About Africa.
Don't get bogged down with precise descriptions.'īinyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author and activist, remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life. 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life
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