Binyavanga Wainaina

Binyavanga Wainaina

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Biography

Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2003, he became the founding editor of Kwani? literary magazine, launched in Kenya, East Africa.

Books by Binyavanga Wainaina
How to Write About AfricaHow to Write About Africa
One Day I Will Write About This PlaceOne Day I Will Write About This Place
Discovering HomeDiscovering Home
Kwani? 02Kwani? 02
Beyond the River YeiBeyond the River Yei
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Quotes by Binyavanga Wainaina

"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

"I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens."

Binyavanga Wainaina