Binyavanga Wainaina
Author
1971-01-18 – 2019-05-21
Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author and cultural critic known for his memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place. He was also recognized for his essay How to Write About Africa and his influence on contemporary African literature.
Quotes by Binyavanga Wainaina
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Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.
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Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.
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People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.
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I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
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What is astonishing is that globalised technology, like Whatsapp and Viber, really gives a lot of leeway to negotiating spaces and to keeping one's identity. So people are able to be more receptive as a gay community to be part of an environment that is going to challenge the law.
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