Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes


What is astonishing is that globalised technology, like Whatsapp and Viber, really gives a lot of leeway to negotiating spaces and to keeping one's identity. So people are able to be more receptive as a gay community to be part of an environment that is going to challenge the law.


Citations

Smith, David. "Binyavanga Wainaina: 'I knew I didn't want to come out in the New Yorker'." The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 24 Jan. 2014.

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Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina
  • Born: January 18, 1971
  • Died: May 21, 2019
  • Nationality: Kenyan
  • Profession: Memoirist, Short-story Writer

Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In April 2014, Time magazine included Wainaina in its annual TIME 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World".