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Binyavanga: The literary gangster who told Africa’s stories most powerfully

The late Binyavanga Wainaina.
The late Binyavanga Wainaina.

He represented a new generation of Kenyan writers who forced their way onto the literary landscape at the turn of the century, winning a Caine Prize for Africa Writing in the process

He was a great Kenyan. Like Chinua Achebe before him, Binyavanga will be remembered for helping to initiate and promote literary production by a new breed of Kenyan and African writers.

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