![]() Wainaina has most recently turned to life-writing. It also serves to remind readers of Granta that Africans lead lives as ordinary and diverse as citizens of any continent. Crucially, the piece aims to demystify the simultaneously idealized and incomprehensible Africa of Western imagination. Wainaina’s satire commands, cuts and amuses. ![]() ![]() In this compelling critique of Western narratives of Africa, Wainaina slams the homogenization of the continent in Western literature and reportage and targets the Western writer’s dubious need to paint relentlessly wretched portraits of African suffering. Wainaina’s literary celebrity soared in 2005 with the publication in Granta of a certain satirical piece entitled How to Write About Africa. A recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing and founding editor of the literary magazine Kwani?, the Kenyan-born writer is now director of the Chinua Achebe Center of African Writers and Artists at Bard College. ![]() Binyavanga Wainaina occupies a prominent place in contemporary African literature. ![]()
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