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From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality“A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The G... Read More about How to Write About Africa: Collected Works

From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality“A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The G... Read More about How to Write About Africa: Collected Works

"A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . suffused by a love affair with language."—Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2011In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbles through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. In One Day I Wil... Read More about One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir

Search Sweet Country?one of the greatest novels ever to come out of the African continent?follows the lives of an eclectic and inextricably interconnected group of Ghanaians living in and around the sprawling, chaotic city of Accra in the mid-1970s. Bringing to life the bustling markets and bars in ... Read More about Search Sweet Country

*A New York Times Notable Book**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year*Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colorful sounds: the... Read More about One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir