AllPanAfrica when I write.” In the titular, satirical piece, which was published in Granta in 2005 and became widely reissued, he explores the many entrenched stereotypes about the African continent. As a young gay writer, he was burdened by the responsibility to represent his young country and its many tribes: “I can’t be, nor do I want to be, Mr. The author writes extensively about the changing nature of Kenya and the new elite who prefer to send their children to English schools as well as the pull of the old traditional ways. Here I am, looking for them again”-and he founded the influential Kwani? (“So what?”) literary magazine. Back in Nairobi, he won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2002 for his essay “Discovering Home”-“When I left, I was relieved that I had escaped the burdens and guilts of being in Kenya, of facing my roots, and repudiating them. In Cape Town, he worked as a food and travel writer. Originally from Nakuru, of Kikuyu descent, Wainaina (1971-2019) spent his young adult years in South Africa, where he attended university as the country was on the verge of apartheid. A generous collection of writing by the Kenyan journalist and essayist.
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