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 ...

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 ...

Ngugi 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, where schools punish ...

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 ...

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).

Just like a palindrome, it’s a form of constrained writing that can be taken to extraordinary extremes—as in the 1974 novel Alphabetical Africa, by the Austrian-born American novelist Walter ...

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 ...

This is the heart of South Africa’s wine country, nestled in the Stellenbosch Mountains, with Cape Town’s fabled Table Mountain in view, close to the historic Cape of Good Hope, where the ...