One Day I Will Write About This Place
Binyavanga Wainaina
A Kenyan childhood recalled in the fractured rhythm of memory itself.
Wainaina traces a Kenyan boyhood, a drifting South African university stint and his slow arrival as a writer, told in impressionistic, sensory prose. He founded the Kenyan literary magazine Kwani? His 2005 satirical essay 'How to Write About Africa' had already skewered Western cliches about the continent. The memoir records how a place is misread from outside and re-seen from within.
Its legacy. In 2014 he came out publicly as gay in a 'lost chapter' that challenged African attitudes to sexuality.
- Author
- Binyavanga Wainaina
- First published
- 2011
- Genre
- Memoir
- Theme
- Contemporary Voices, Memoir and Testimony
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