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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 colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells...

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A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life, featuring an introduction from his long-time friend, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Binyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author and creative force, remembered as one o...

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A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are...

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A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life, featuring an introduction from his long-time friend, Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBinyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author and creative force, remembered as one of the ...

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"Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist, and a gatherer of literary communities. Before his tragic death in 2019 at the age of forty-seven, he won the Caine Prize for African ...

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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] s...

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*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 ca...

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In this vivid and compelling debut memoir, acclaimed Kenyan Caine Prize winner Wainaina takes readers through his school days, his mother's religious period, his failed attempt to study in South Africa as a computer programmer, a moving family reu...

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Mit der Kurzgeschichte Discovery Home hat er die literarische Buhne betreten, danach die wichtigste Zeitschrift fur neue afrikanische Literatur Kwani? gegrundet. Der nachhaltige Erfolg seiner Satire How to Write About Africa hat ihn zur Stimme des...

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Binyavanga Wainaina nimmt seine Leser mit auf die Reise durch sein Leben von den 1970ern bis in die heutige Gegenwart. Er erzÿhlt von einer Kindheit in der urbanen Mittelklasse Kenias, der Studienzeit im Südafrika des gesellschaftlichen Wandels,...

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"En fantastisk bok" -- Expressen "En exceptionell debut" -- Svenska Dagbladet Kenyanen Binyavanga Wainaina är en av den afrikanska kontinentens just nu mest intressanta och omtalade författare. I sin kritiker-rosade självbiografiska roman En dag s...

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