Editor's note: Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina died on Tuesday, May 22 after an illness. Perhaps his most acclaimed work was the satiric essay "How To Write About Africa," which we are ...

Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina, who died on Tuesday. "How To Write About Africa" is perhaps his most famous essay. "Whichever angle you take," he urged, tongue-in-cheek, "be sure to leave the ...

Africa's Wizard Of WordsNgugi first started writing in the ’60s, under his original name, James Ngugi, and in English: the leftover colonial language still revered in parts of today’s Africa ...

In 2005, Binyavanga Wainaina published a brilliantly sarcastic essay in Granta called "How to Write About Africa," advising people on how to sound spiritual and compassionate while writing a book ...

In 2005, Binyavanga Wainaina published a brilliantly sarcastic essay in Granta called “How to Write About Africa,” advising people on how to sound spiritual and compassionate while ...

The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual award for African creative writing, awarded for a short story by an African writer, published in English (indicative length 3,000 to 10,000 words).

Africa has always been marked by difference, globally, and this difference always bears negativity,and tends to perpetuate stereotypes. What Adekeye Adebajo’s recent work The Splendid Tapestry ...

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained indeed.

In the past few years, writers have been liberated from traditional publishers with the advent of platforms like Substack, and there’s been a mushrooming of individual newsletters. But could it be ...

Opinion - NGŨGĨ wa Thiong'o, a towering figure in African literature, is no more. He passed away on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, at the age of 87.