Gay Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina makes the Time 100
In January, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina came out as gay, following the passage of a wave of anti-gay laws in Africa. Having grown up in a country where homosexuality is… Read more »
Nigerian authors speak out against the country’s anti-gay law, “reminiscent of Nazi Germany”
While the Sochi Olympics ensured that Russia has gotten the lion’s share of the world’s attention for their shocking treatment and criminalization of homosexuality, the Nigerian government has been doing… Read more »
Binyavanga Wainaina on coming out, homophobia, and the powers of the imagination
“I cannot say the word gay until I am thirty-nine.” In 2002, the Kenyan intellectual, writer, and satirist Binyavanga Wainaina won the Caine Prize for African Writing for the short story “Discovering Home”… Read more »