InOffline Radio AfricabyRoy Sangoro·Jan 5, 2025Binyavanga Wainaina: The Satirical Sage of the SavannahBinyavanga Wainaina wasn’t just a writer — he was a full-on literary revolutionary armed with a pen sharp enough to cut through decades of…
Abiud Khimani·Nov 15, 2023BEGINNINGSI have never been a fan of waiting. Waiting always brews anxieties. Anxieties cripples my thinking and in the end I find myself tired and…
Edwin King·Aug 26, 2023How to Write About Africa: Examining Binyavanga Wainaina’s Famous EssayIn 2005, the late Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina wrote a sarcastic essay titled “How to Write About Africa”, critiquing the problematic…
IOK·Feb 18, 2023One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga WainainaI have read many autobiographies or memoirs, but none have come to the level of Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This…
Rashmee Roshan Lall·Oct 1, 2022How to write (and illustrate stories) about ‘Africans’, while chanelling Binyavaga WainainaOff the back of ‘ The Mirror’ newspaper’s apology for mistakenly using a picture of a different black guy in a suit to illustrate a story…
