Binyavanga Wainaina

 

Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina (18 January 1971 - 21 May 2019) aarĩ mwandĩki, mũnyathia wa mohoro kuuma Kenya na nĩ aheo kĩheo kĩa Caine Prize for African Writing mwaka wa 2002. Mwaka wa 2003, nĩ we warĩ mũhariri wa mbere wa 'Kwani?' ngathĩti ya maũndũ marũthiomi. Mwaka wa 2014, ngathĩti ya Time nĩ ya thinĩkirie Wainaina thĩinĩ wa ngathĩti yayo ya mwaka wa Time 100 ta ũmwe wa andũ arĩa maarĩ na ũhoti mũno thĩiniĩ wa thĩ.

Wainaina nĩ aanyitire itemi igongona-inĩ rĩa PICNIC mwaka wa 2008, kũrĩa aarĩ mwaria mũkaru.

Wainaina nĩ acokanĩrĩirie maruga makĩria ma 13,000 kuuma gĩtarũ kĩa Afrika na aarĩ njorua wa irio cia ndũrĩrĩ cia Africa cia mahinda maya na kĩndũire.

Mabuku marĩa marutĩtwo

• "Discovering Home" (short story), g21net, 2001. Reprinted in Discovering Home: A selection of writings from the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing.
• "An Affair to Dismember" (short story), Wasafiri, Volume 17, Issue 37, 2002.
• "Beyond the River Yei: Life in the Land Where Sleeping is a Disease" (photographic essay; with Sven Torfinn), Kwani Trust, 2004.
• "How To Write About Africa" (article, satire), Granta 92, 2005. As How to Write About Africa, Kwani Trust, 2008,  . Reproduced in full in the 40th birthday edition of Granta, 2 May 2019.
• "In Gikuyu, for Gikuyu, of Gikuyu" (article, satire), Granta 103, 2008.
• "How to Write About Africa II: The Revenge", Bidoun, No. 21, Bazaar II, 2010.
• One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (autobiography); Graywolf Press, 2011,  .
• "Viewpoint: Binyavanga on why Africa's international image is unfair", BBC News | Africa, 24 April 2012.
• "A Letter to All Kenyans from Binyavanga Wainaina or Binyavanga wa Muigai" (essay), Brittle Paper, 25 October 2017.