Binyavanga Wainaina is the founding editor of Kwani?, a leading African literary magazine. He won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, and has written for Vanity Fair, Granta, and The New York Times. Wainaina directs the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists at Bard College.
Non fiction
Beyond the River Yei (2004)
How to Write About Africa (2008)
One Day I Will Write About This Place (2011)
How to Write About Africa (2008)
One Day I Will Write About This Place (2011)
Binyavanga Wainaina recommends
Freshwater (2018)
Akwaeke Emezi
"Wow. The net effect is a feeling of being peeled open, and quickly finding that skinless place to be normal. More than any novel I can remember, it feels utterly present to the place we are in the world."