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LGBT activist and writer Binyavanga Wainaina. [File, Standard]
Caine Literary prize winner and LGBT activist Binyavanga Wainaina is dead. Reports indicate that the 48-year-old writer died at 10 pm at his Langata home near Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi, after battling stroke for some time.
The "How to Write About Africa" satirical essay writer won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing. The winning was the essay titled Discovering Home.
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