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What kind of Gikuyu are you? This question has been circling around and inside me for many years.
Binyavanga Wainaina: two years ago, when we heard that Jacob Zuma was running for president, we were upset.
A successful brand management strategy is one that makes people pay remarkably high prices for products that are inherently cheap to make.
Binyavanga Wainaina: Nowhere on the planet are there countries as oddly shaped as in Africa.
To belong to a civilisation is to take all your nation’s bodies and ready them for the open market.
Information about Obama’s grandfather could begin a strange game
So many writers are making money writing stupid self-help books.
Binyavanga Wainaina: To win an election, our political classes released the beast. This beast is exactly as bestial as something out of Revelations.
Did Ngugi wa Thiong’o read Harold Robbins? Did he know what kind of mind-blowing sex you could have in LA with cocaine rubbed on your genitals?
This whole year a new virus has been spreading to countries where elections are taking place. It is called "Doing a Kibaki".
We trust them, because in our schoolbooks, in our newspapers, in all media, more space is dedicated to their ideas and lives than to anything else.
The reason why Kenyans are bad musicians is because we are out of touch with our own tastes and instincts.
Our professionals groan when posted to Uganda, or Tanzania, or South Africa even — these people don’t work; they take long lunches; they don’t save.
Few people know that the British anti-slavery movement began with a meeting of three diabetics for tea and sugarfree crumpets.
It is time to effect change through constructive enterprise
There is much to lament about with the latest violence in South Africa. We Africans have been hijacked by our worst selves and this has made us paranoid and unable to use our…
Wikipedia: according to a British medical journal of 1972 haemorrhoids ”are common in economically developed communities, rare in developing countries and almost unknown in…
I was in Senegal for a few weeks, and was assisted by an able and creative young man. For a while, I wondered why he did not react to my text messages. His French was good. He…
Last week, eight of us from the Concerned Writers Group went to visit Eldoret, the town at the epicentre of the clashes in Kenya. Having been born and brought up in the Rift…
My country is in turmoil. We voted on December 27 and the voting process was the most peaceful in our history. The voter turnout was higher than ever. For the past few years, the…
