More than a chronicle of Namibia, Barbara Adair’s book experiments with language and structure
This literature goes beyond Western science fiction, creating a unique identity rooted in the continent’s rich cultural heritage
Stevenson gallery staff took to Instagram to share a small selection of literature guiding their “respective journeys towards listening, learning and confronting bias”
Thirteen years after Binyavanga Wainaina’s satirical essay, many ‘experts’ on Africa continue to fail to comprehend the need for African voices
Writing about Binyavanga, as is writing about Africa, is about what is left off the page
Binyavanga Wainaina was an exceptional writer, activist and human being
The Kenyan writer and activist died on Tuesday night after suffering a stroke
Binyavanga Wainaina, one of Africa’s leading literary figures, has outed himself in response to a wave of homophobic laws across the continent.
Binyavanga Wainaina: two years ago, when we heard that Jacob Zuma was running for president, we were upset.
If faith is the oxygen of a young state, faith in a viable future, there is very little oxygen in Kenya right now.
Binyavanga Wainaina: Nowhere on the planet are there countries as oddly shaped as in Africa.
Information about Obama’s grandfather could begin a strange game
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".
Mugabe’s primary source of power becomes the power we give him. The man is bouncing around Zimbabwe with the energy of a five-year-old.
It is time to effect change through constructive enterprise
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…
This morning, facing too many deadlines, I found my brain blocked. I have been reading all three fat Mandela books, trying to find something to say for a commissioned article. In…
Hello kitty kitty kitty … Are you an orphan? Are you Sudanese? Chadian? Are you a sub-Saharan African suffering from mild mental retardation? Are you an African woman suffering…
