binyavanga wainaina, welcome to hardtalk.stephen. just a few weeks ago, you took a very momentous decision to come out as 93v, momentous decision to come out as gay, why? i am turning 43. it must have been more than your birthday. you knew it was going to change your life? i came back home a couple of yea rs life? i came back home a couple of years ago permanently too subtle. i was fascinated in the last three yea rs was fascinated in the last three years at the rate of change of things on the continent. there's just a lot going on. a lot of freedoms, a lot of threats, a lot of violence, a lot of economic growth. and for me, most personally, a lot of creativity. for the last ten yea rs of creativity. for the last ten years i've worked with writers across the continent in nigeria, kenya, zimbabwe, iwork across the continent in nigeria, kenya, zimbabwe, i work with talent asa kenya, zimbabwe, i work with talent as a publisher and general noisemaker and rally of things. —— rally of things and i seen a change. going for broke, bu

he was one of africa's most renowned young authors binyavanga wainaina won multiple awards for his writing including the caine prize for african writing for 2002 discovering home but most will probably remember him from a scathing satirical essay he wrote called how to write about africa challenging popular stereotypes about reporting on the continent when you write about africa he said always use the word africa or darkness or safari in your title never have a picture of a well adjusted african unless that african has won the nobel prize remember any work you submit in which people look filthy and miserable will be referred to as the real africa do not feel queasy about this you are trying to help them get aid from the west a significant amount of coverage probably the vast majority of coverage or africa by the way is it reinforces the preexisting idea that this story has to stop. kenya is experiencing economic growth after the devastation of the rest of the continent yet septimus thought so so that they existed narrative must be the pendant and collapsed place and then oh maybe there's a

he was one of africa's most renowned young authors binyavanga wainaina won multiple awards for his writing including the caine prize for african writing for 2002 discovering home but most will probably remember him from a scathing satirical essay he wrote called how to write about africa challenging popular stereotypes about reporting on the continent when you write about africa he said always use the word africa or darkness or safari in your title never have a picture of a well adjusted african unless that african has won the nobel prize remember any work you submit in which people look filthy and miserable will be referred to as the real africa do not feel queasy about this you're trying to help them get aid from the west a significant amount of effort to cover coverage probably the vast majority of coverage or in africa by the way asked reinforces the preexisting idea that this story has to stop. kenya is experiencing economic growth after the devastation of the rest of the continent except from stop so that they existed in narrative must to be the pendant and collapsed place and then o

he was one of africa's most renowned young authors binyavanga wainaina won multiple awards for his writing including the caine prize for african writing for 2002 discovering home but most will probably remember him from a scathing satirical essay he wrote called how to write about africa challenging popular stereotypes about reporting on the continent when you write about africa he said always use the word africa or darkness or safari in your title never have a picture of a well adjusted african unless that african has won the nobel prize remember any work you submit in which people look filthy and miserable will be referred to as the real africa do not feel queasy about this you are trying to help them get aid from the west a significant amount of effort coverage probably the vast majority of coverage or in africa by the way is it reinforces the preexisting idea that this story has to stop. kenya is experiencing economic growth after the devastation of the rest of the continent yet symptoms that so that they exist in narrative must be the pendant and collapsed place and then oh maybe ther

i am a homosexual mom with the upfront title of binyavanga wainaina is bombshell short story in 2014 wynona wrote the tale for his late mother as an imagined last chapter to his 2011 memoirs while that accounted failed to mention his sexuality he's coming out pulled no punches so i just i came up because i'm like you know people have dignity all people of dignity there's nobody. in the spirit there's nobody was up be still and i mean what right now i'm quite famous somebody saying. whatever you want to see it right but don't come with stones and sticks and loss ray wynonna was already one of kenya's most renowned writers when he won the caine prize for african writing in 2002 the award propelled him to world prominence in 2014 time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people for his gay rights activism he wasn't afraid of criticizing homophobic african leaders so when the people in the streets braids and their whispering about you and you know you're going to lose an election you'll find loud noises zimbabwe mugabi. mia what's a cheap easy way to score points be

marry his boyfriend in south africa now the 2 will not have their wedding my next guest knew binyavanga wainaina personally did every african joins me now from good to see you didn't knew him personally and you know changing the narrative of how people view the continent meant so much to say and why was this the case. he was a pan african east fast and foremost he thought of both the continent broadly and was unafraid differently as a matter of fact when he was just a student in 1904 he wrote a letter to granta. about how to write about africa and in each he really went in about this to a typical ways in which everything was being presented or in different text not just in the media but also in books by people who visited the continent and you nor the always painted yellow orange sunset and he just you know confronts this 2 types and then just shortly after he founded the. magazine literary magazine which allowed young people to express express themselves in their with that they knew how in the language saying that they spoke very commonly in the streets of nairobi ok so we're talking somebody a

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in israel or the kenya north binyavanga wainaina has died he won multiple awards for his writing including the caine prize for african writing in satirical essay how to write about africa challenge popular stereotypes about the continent and several antigay nor the past in countries across africa and 2014 when in a public he spoke out announcing that he was gay he got a stroke at the age of 48. and their money also has become the 1st arabic language writer to win the prestigious man booker international prize he was awarded $64000.00 for a novel celestial bodies she says shares the prize with american academic mountain translator the novel into english tells a story of a man's transformation of the end of colonial rule of 3 sisters. a quick check of the headlines here the british prime minister to resign made something creasing pressure over the latest version of her briggs deal the opposition labor party says it won't back it to the prime minister's also facing criticism from within their own party she maintains a 4th vote can unite parliament i've set out the 10 points about the new deal