![]() ![]() How to Write About Africa:. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. No word yet on whether “How to Write About Africa” will turn into a trilogy, but Africaphiles can hope. Buy How to Write About Africa by Wainaina, Binyavanga (ISBN: 9780241252505) from Amazons Book Store. ![]() So I wrote a long-truly long-rambling email to the editor.”įor more of the story behind the story, check out the Bidoun Web site. ![]() No, we were ‘over there,’ where brave people in khaki could come and bear witness. There was nothing new, no insight, but lots of ‘reportage’-Oh, gosh, wow, look, golly ooo-as if Africa and Africans were not part of the conversation, were not indeed living in England across the road from the Granta office. Originally from Nakuru, of Kikuyu descent, Wainaina (1971-2019) spent his young. I was responding to its “Africa” issue, which was populated by every literary bogeyman that any African has ever known, a sort of ‘Greatest Hits of Hearts of Fuckedness.’ It wasn’t the grimness that got to me, it was the stupidity. A generous collection of writing by the Kenyan journalist and essayist. In a fit of anger, maybe even low blood sugar-it runs in the family-I spent a few hours one night at my graduate student flat in Norwich, England, writing to the editor of Granta. In How to Write About Africa, Wainaina dissects the cliché of Africa and the preconceptions dear to western writers and readers with ruthless precision. “How to Write about Africa” grew out of an email. ![]()
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