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Binyavanga Wainaina
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born
January 18, 1971
in Nakuru, Kenya
gender
male
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One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
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2012
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5 editions
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Discovering Home
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How to Write about Africa
4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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2006
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Kwani? 4
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2007
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Kwani? 01
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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2003
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Kwani? 03
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2003
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Kwani? 02
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2007
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Search Sweet Country
by B. Kojo Laing, Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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1986
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“I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.”
― Binyavanga Wainaina
― Binyavanga Wainaina
“When art as an expression starts to appear, without prompting, all over the suburbs and villages of this country, what we are saying is: we are confident enough to create our own living, our own entertainment, our own aesthetic. Such an aesthetic will not be donated to us from the corridors of a university; or from the Ministry of Culture, or by the French Cultural Centre. It will come from the individual creations of a thousand creative people”
― Binyavanga Wainaina, Kwani? 01
― Binyavanga Wainaina, Kwani? 01
“It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the ruffle at the edge of a skirt; and I am pockmarked with whole-body pinpricks of potentiality. A stretch of my body would surely stretch as far as the sky. The whole universe poised, and I am the agent of any movement.”
― Binyavanga Wainaina
― Binyavanga Wainaina
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Great African Reads: What other books are you reading? | 231 | 200 | Sep 16, 2011 12:39pm | |
| Mid-Continent Pub...: Publishers Weekly Best Books 2011 | 5 | 9 | Nov 17, 2011 09:03am | |
| Great African Reads: Kwani? | 8 | 22 | Dec 04, 2011 03:32pm | |
| Around the World ...: Kenya | 5 | 54 | Feb 27, 2012 04:50am |
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