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Binyavanga Wainaina

Binyavanga Wainaina (1971–2019) won the Caine Prize for African Writing and was author of One Day I Will Write About This Place as well as the celebrated essay “How to Write About Africa.”

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Arts in Society

Binguni!

Celebrated writer Binyavanga Wainaina’s first piece of fiction was thought to be lost. Recently rediscovered, it appears here twenty-five years after it originally debuted.

Binyavanga Wainaina, Achal Prabhala

       

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