Binyavanga Wainaina attacked insulting clichés in the essay, “How to Write About Africa,” in 2005. In a posthumous collection of the same name, his range as a writer is on display. By Anderson Tepper ...

In his 2005 satirical piece, “How to Write About Africa,” the late Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina explored how the Western gaze in media perpetuates a distorted view of Africa. “Always use the word ...

From grief to growth, women are gathering in the desert for a retreat, to turn their emotional wounds into words.

The cadences of her speech, untouched by the Glaswegian accents around her, were those of her native Namaqualand in South Africa and the coloured community among which she grew up. Her vivid language, ...

Welcome back to the class. Today, we are concluding our discussion of the uses of italics and how they help in standardising our write-ups. Last week, we defined the element as a writing style in ...