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…
InKalahari ReviewbyThe Kalahari Review·Jul 3, 2019Today I Will Write About This PlaceAn Igby Prize essay reflecting on Binyavanga Wainaina and queer love in the time of the penal code — by Nkateko Masinga
Leon Lidigu·Jun 7, 2019Why Kenya will never decriminalize gay sexI no longer can tell what is breaking news and what isn’t since almost everything that happens seems to be ‘breaking’ nowadays.
jeremyweate·Jun 5, 2019Binyavanga In The BardoAnd so Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina becomes past tense, or in Facebook argot, “remembering”. Every day since his death, the Binj has…
Beyond the Journey·May 23, 2019An African Granuletelling the story of Africa through his own pen and paper…
InKalahari ReviewbyThe Kalahari Review·Jul 19, 2017The Clumsy Binyavanga Wainaina in JohannesburgAn essay on Binyavanga Wainaina’s move to Johannesburg and the how his clumsiness is central to understanding his work and life by Hugo…
