Bibliograph

How to write about Africa, collected works, Binyavanga Wainaina ; edited by Achal Prabhala

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Label

How to write about Africa, collected works, Binyavanga Wainaina ; edited by Achal Prabhala

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

mixed forms

Main title

How to write about Africa

Oclc number

1380788567

Responsibility statement

Binyavanga Wainaina ; edited by Achal Prabhala

Sub title

collected works

Summary

"Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist, and a gatherer of literary communities. Before his tragic death in 2019 at the age of forty-seven, he won the Caine Prize for African Writing and was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People. His wildly popular essay "How to Write About Africa," an incisive and unapologetic piece that exposed the harmfully racist ways Western media depicts Africa, with implicit bias and subjective clichés, changed the game for African writers and helped set the stage for a new generation of authors, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Yaa Gyasi. When Wainaina published a "lost chapter" of his 2011 memoir as an essay called "I Am a Homosexual, Mum," which imagines coming out to his mother, he became a voice for the queer, African community as well, adding a new layer to how African sexuality is perceived"--, Provided by publisher

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