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Elizabeth Lowry: Binyavanga Wainaina, 23 February 2012
One Day I Will Write about This Place
by Binyavanga Wainaina.
Granta, 256 pp., £15.99, November 2011,978 1 84708 021 9 Show More
by Binyavanga Wainaina.
Granta, 256 pp., £15.99, November 2011,
“... In 2005 the Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, then living in Norwich, wrote a blisteringly satirical essay on ‘How to Write about Africa’. He was responding to Granta’s Africa issue, which he hated, as he later explained, for being ‘populated by every literary bogeyman that any African has ever known ... ”