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"Oxfamming the Whole Black World"

A December 2007 op-ed in Mail & Guardian

"How To Write About Africa"

An essay from Granta, the Winter 2005 edition of the literary journal

"Generation Kenya"

A July 2007 article from Vanity Fair

"In Gikuyu, for Gikuyu, of Gikuyu"

An Autumn 2008 essay in Granta

"Discovering Home"

His short story, winner of the 2002 Caine Prize for African writing

My Nairobi

In this multimedia piece from National Geographic, Binyavanga Wainaina takes you on a visual tour of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

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    Binyavanga Wainaina

    Wainaina is the founding editor of Kwani? literary journal and the director of Bard College's Chinua Achebe Center for African Languages and Literature.

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