Celebrating Binyavanga Wainaina’s Fiction

A recording of our event on Wed, April 14, 2021, co-hosted with The Against Nature Journal.
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Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina (1971-2019) was among the greatest of his generation. A winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, in the final decade of his life he had become as well a celebrated speaker, and was even named by TIME to its list of “Most Influential People in the World.” He was also an out gay man and a tireless advocate for the rights of sexual minorities.
The unusual velocity of his most famous essays, especially “How to Write About Africa” (2005) and “I’m a Homosexual, Mum” (2014), means that many readers think of him mainly as an essayist and memoirist. But he also was a gifted, prolific writer of fiction.
This conversation took place on the occasion of the republication of his first short story, “Binguni!” (1996), by Boston Review's Arts in Society project and The Against Nature Journal, and aims to initiate a critical revival of Wainaina's fiction.
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