Tag: Binyavanga Wainaina
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Book Digest: Binyavanga Wainaina, Monique Severin, Nike Campbell, Yessoh G.D
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Binyavanga Wainaina, Monique Severin, Nike Campbell, and Yessoh G.D. How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina Publisher: PenguinPublication Date: September 29, 2022Genre: Nonfiction, EssaysLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Penguin. Binyavanga Wainaina Binyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author…
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Binyavanga Wainaina honoured in ceremony in Malawi.
Binyavanga Wainaina was honoured at a ceremony at the Story Club Art Cafe in Lilongwe, Malawi on August 24, 2019. Binyavanga Wainaina shot to continental fame in 2002 when his short story Discovering Home won The Caine Prize for African Writing. He went on to become its most famous winner in the years that followed…
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Binyavanga Wainaina Memorial hosted in Nairobi.
The memorial to fallen Kenyan writer and activist Binyavanga Wainaina was hosted at the Nairobi National Museum on Thursday, May 30, 2019. Binyavanga Wainaina was a colossus in 21st Century African literature. He shot to continental fame in 2002 when his short story Discovering Home won The Caine Prize for African Writing. He went on…
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Kwani Open Mic dedicated to Binyavanga Wainaina hosted in Nairobi.
The Kwani Open Mic dedicated to Binyavanga Wainaina was hosted at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi on May 28, 2019. For many people around the world, Binyavanga Wainaina was the brains and charisma behind the literary journal Kwani? The journal was the home of writers who had failed to get a space in the…
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Binyavanga Wainaina has passed on.
Kenyan writer and activist Binyavanga Wainaina passed on after a short illness on the night of May 21, 2019. Binyavanga Wainaina was a colossus in 21st Century African literature. He shot to continental fame in 2002 when his short story Discovering Home won The Caine Prize for African Writing. While the prize was new then,…
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Rallying for Binyavanga Wainaina #LoveForBinyavanga
Binyavanga Wainaina. This is a name synonymous with some of the best that has come out of Kenya in the last twenty years. He emerged when he won the Caine Prize for African writing in 2002. Some would have taken the money and moved to a bigger apartment and lived off his fame until further…
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Authors give tributes to late Zimbabwean author and poet Chenjerai Hove
Zimbabwean author, poet, and commentator Chenjerai Hove passed on in Stavanger, Norway on Sunday. The author who was born in Mazvihwa in 1956 leaves a wife and six children. Hove began life as a teacher before working as an editor for Mambo Press then devoted his life to writing. His works include Masimba Avanhu (1986),…
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No Valentines Day plans? Ankara Press got you sorted
Its Valentines Day on Saturday and Ankara Press have your back for the big day. They have commissioned Toni Kan, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Binyavanga Wainaina, Chuma Nwokolo, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Edwige-Renée Dro, and Hawa Jande Kolakai to write romance stories for your reading pleasure. Also on board are seven talented translators, including Chikodili Emelumadu, Kola…
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Top Writers in New African 100 most influential list.
The New African magazine has published its highly regarded 100 Hundred Most Influential Africans 2014 and it has some of what the team who run the publication considers the Africans to watch in 2014. The list is segmented into different categories like politics, media, arts and culture, business, and more. A few of the writers…
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Jalada’s Afrofuture anthology is coming; be afraid, be very afraid
Jalada’s Afrofuture anthology: Jalada Africa has announced that their newest anthology with the “Afrofuture” theme will be unleashed on an unsuspecting public on January 2015. They have given a sneak peek of the anthology with a non-fiction piece on visual artist Wangechi Mutu and her career by Binyanvanga Wainaina. The hottest new thing in the…
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Daystar literature program “Creatives Academy” wraps up
The literature program of the Daystar University where students learn the business of writing called The Creatives Academy ended on Saturday after 12 weeks. It was one of the most innovative programs for students of literature in recent times in Kenya. Students were offered an opportunity to interact with professionals in writing thus learn how the…
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Top African writers under 40 announced
Africa39 a project celebrating the top 39 African writers under the age of 40 has announced its best at the London Book Fair today. The Africa39 project seeks to produce a possible snapshot of our shared African future. The unique part of the project is that it lists not just English but African languages with…
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Nairobi goes gaga for Chimamanda Adichie
The Kwani Trust turned ten years old this year and the trust that built its name as the new face of Kenyan literature hosted several events to celebrate this fact. I was one of the many Nairobi folks that filled the University of Nairobi 8-4-4 hall on Friday last week. The crowd was full and…
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Writers make it a memorable Sunday Salon
That Eric Wainaina place that used to be called Kifaru Gardens and is now called Elephant House was where all the roads led to on Sunday afternoon for the literary inclined for Sunday Salon. The Sunday Salon is an event where literature fans got to hear writers read their own work in a relaxed environment.…
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A buffet of Kenyan authors at the Junction Mall
If you are following the literature space from out of Nairobi you would probably believe that the only people who have written books in Kenya are Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Binyavanga Wainaina. The truth is that there are many people who have written books in Kenya with less exotic names and the chances to see…