We are angels, victims of everybody
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I am a Gujarathi Kenyan. I never ever ever criticize Kenyan Gujrathis. I am a Yoruba African. Yoruba Africans have never ever done a bad thing ever. Not One. I.....
Binyavanga on how #Nollywood can save #African_Literature
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Nollywood may be, for Wole Soyinka, an “unprepossessing monstrosity” or a sordid “thrill of the grotesque,” but for #Binyavanga_Wainaina it represents a powerful revolutionary impulse much needed in contemporary.....
#Binyavanga_Wainaina: “Kenya is not a nation if we can’t properly memorialize each and every citizen we lose”
▻http://africasacountry.com/binyavanga-wainaina-kenya-is-not-a-nation-if-we-cant-properly-memor
I want to go to a place. A piece of ground, also a place online, where we can find the names of all those who have died for #Kenya since.....
Canadian burden
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The “Of Africa” symposium begins at the #Royal_Ontario_Museum tonight with a keynote by Binyavanga Wainana. The gathering is an attempt by the museum to finally move beyond its vile and condemned 1989 exhibit “Into the heart #Of_Africa.” The display on entering that exhibit was a portrait of a British coloniser stabbing a Zulu […]
#ART #HISTORY #Binyavanga_Wainaina #Into_the_Heart_of_Africa
The burden of #HISTORY
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The “Of Africa” symposium begins at the #Royal_Ontario_Museum tonight with a keynote by Binyavanga Wainana. The gathering is an attempt by the museum to finally move beyond its vile and condemned 1989 exhibit “Into the heart #Of_Africa.” The display on entering that exhibit was a portrait of a British coloniser stabbing a Zulu […]
Why we made a #FILM about the images and myths that cast a continent as a victim
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We’re making the documentary film, #FRAMED, because we recognize a lot of Americans want to do good in Africa, with the best of intentions, but the way they go about it often doesn’t play out well for Africans. In western pop culture, we’re still seeing images of Africans as helpless, hopeless and without any ideas […]
Sunday night on #Twitter with #Binyavanga_Wainaina
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We sometimes joke that often when we’re online the only other person who’s consistently awake and on Twitter (no matter where he is in the world) is Binyavanga Wainaina. It’s like, if you blink, you miss out on some pronouncement by him. Though he has been an active social media user for a while now, it was after he came out on January 18th, that he has gone into overdrive. And you can’t look away. No one else we know, talking about Africans and their relations to the West (not on Western terms), is in such blistering form right now. Take Sunday night when—from a hotel balcony in Dakar; he was in town to give a lecture—he just went (...)
#Chimamanda_Adichie lines up the homophobic arguments and knocks them down one by one
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We’ve seen a range of responses from African intellectuals to the crisis of #homophobia, especially in states that are planning oppressive anti-gay laws As well as #Binyavanga_Wainaina, several Nigerian intellectuals have also weighed in. Yesterday was Chimamanda Adichie’s turn, and she made a very important contribution. The thing I like about the piece is […]
#General #MEDIA #OPINION #POLITICS #Area_Scatter #Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie #Seun_Kuti
How to deal with reporters like #Alex_Preston
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So journalist Alex Preston jetted into town from a posh Western capital. Alex Preston went to a Nigerian city of eerie silence, billowing clouds of dust, darkness and war. Alex Preston wrote a sexy story about a not-so-sexy subject for a sexy magazine. Alex Preston is white. It is important not to think too hard […]
#General #JOURNALISM #MEDIA #OPINION #Abuja #Binyavanga_Wainaina #Boko_Haram #Borno_State #Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie #Chinua_Achebe #Elnathan_John #GQ_magazine #Josef_Conrad #Maiduguri #Middle_Class #Nigeria #Teju_Cole #white_savior_industrial_complex
Where are the openly gay actors, politicians, artists, academics, scientists, businesspeople?
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Binyavanga Wainaina’s coming out last week was seen as a ‘bombshell’ by a wide range of media, including the New York Times, and Kenya’s Daily Nation. Certainly it was cheered by many, both publicly and privately, as courageous and timely. The big question, as the the BBC asks, is ‘Will #Binyavanga_Wainaina Change Attitudes to […]
How to come out as an African
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In an interview with #NPR, #Binyavanga_Wainaina (“I am a homosexual, mum”) explained to host Celeste Heedlee why he did not include the fact that he was gay in his 2011 memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place, that he didn’t think “my language is ready or lyrical enough to start talking about – […]
#Watch Binyavanga’s brilliant YouTube #documentary calling out the BS behind “African” #homophobia
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We’ve been looking forward to this one. When our friends at the Guardian and BBC (and plenty of other outlets) finally reported on Binyavanga Wainaina’s wonderful essay yesterday, we learned that he had a documentary up his sleeve as well. And here it is, in six witty, moving, thoughtful, hilarious, essential, truthful parts — “We Must Free […]
#General #HISTORY #Hot_News #MEDIA #OPINION #PALAVER #VIDEO #Binyavanga_Wainaina #gay_rights #Goodluck_Jonathan #Kenya #Nigeria #We_Must_Free_Our_Imaginations
What will people say?
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How does one come out when a global audience believes it knows the terrain of one’s life story—all the fissures and intimacies that there are to know—already? How does one tell of that thing which one held close—and tell it in a whisper to one’s mum, to one’s Baba—while letting go of that tight-fisted secrecy into the air for others to breathe in and take away as if it were theirs to own and consume? Here, on the Internet, a world will imagine that this whisper is an invitation to bring cars around the back to the back of the house, where carefully tended thickets camouflage things one did not, in fact, know how to reveal to the most beloved figures in one’s life. It will not be obvious to many that the thicket is still one’s own, that one simply said what should have been just known, not (...)
I am a homosexual, mum
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Mum. I will say. Muum? I will say. It grooves so easy, a breath, a noise out of my mouth, mixed up with her breath, and she exhales. My heart gasps sharp and now my mind screams, sharp, so so hurt so so angry. “I have never thrown my heart at you mum. You have never asked me to.” Only my mind says. This. Not my mouth. But surely the jerk of my breath and heart, there next to hers, has been registered? Is she letting me in? Nobody, nobody, ever in my life has heard this. Never, mum. I did not trust you, mum. And. I. Pulled air hard and balled it down into my navel, and let it out slow and firm, clean and without bumps out of my mouth, loud and clear over a shoulder, into her ear. “I am a homosexual, (...)
L’Afrique Est Un Pays
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This past October was the #Dutty_Artz crew’s 6 year anniversary, so we decided to celebrate by releasing a compilation in the form of a series of four free geographically-oriented EPs with accompanying DJ mixes. The final edition has Africa as its loose geographic focus (even though we’ve already dipped into Africa with our What Edward Said EP), and is […]
#MUSIC #Africa_Latina #Angola #Binyavanga_Wainaina #Black_Atlantic #Brooklyn #Chief_Boima #Chinua_Achebe #Eduardo_Galeano #Frederic_Galliano #Janka_Nabay #Kev #Lamin_Fofana #New_York #Sierra_Leone #Techno
Un giorno scriverò di questo posto
–-> un jour j’écrirai sur cet endroit
Pomeriggio. Giochiamo a pallone vicino ai fili del bucato, dietro casa. Jimmy, mio fratello, ha undici anni e mia sorella Ciru cinque e mezzo. Io sto in porta. Comincia così Un giorno scriverò di questo posto, l’autobiografia di #Binyavanga_Wainaina, appena uscita per 66thand2nd. Il magazine Internazionale ha pubblicato le prime pagine di questo libro e noi ci siamo permessi di fare copia e incolla… Buona lettura!
–-> après-midi. Nous jouons au foot près de la lessive, derrière la maison. Jimmiy, mon frère, a 11 ans et ma soeur Ciru cinq et demi. Je garde le but. Débute ainsi « Un giorno scriverò di questo posto », l’autobiographie de Binyavanga Wainaina, qui vient de sortir pour 66thand2nd, le magazine international a publié les premières pages de ce livre.
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Site d’où est tiré l’extrait du #livre :
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#migration #enfant #Kenya #enfance
Kenya, 1978. Nell’anno della morte del presidente Kenyatta, il «padre della patria» di etnia kikuyu, Wainaina ha sette anni e nella mente «un milione di corridoi». Da qui prende il via questo memoir di formazione che procede per ricordi e metafore immaginifiche, in cui Binyavanga racconta la propria storia e insieme quella, ingarbugliata e violenta, del continente nero. La sua non è l’Africa ingorda degli affamati e delle multinazionali ma un’Africa che vuole trarre forza dalla diversità, e che Wainaina restituisce attraverso le proprietà magiche della parola: l’infanzia in Kenya, l’università in Sudafrica, i viaggi in Uganda e poi in Togo, gli scontri brutali tra etnie, le mode occidentali e i colori sgargianti, la confusione delle strade e dei mercati si alternano al tempo sospeso, segreto e provvidenziale della lettura. È nel cuore del romanzo, quando la sterminata e cosmopolita famiglia di Wainaina finalmente si riunisce assumendo le complesse sembianze dell’intero continente, che si attiva l’illuminazione: «Un giorno scriverò di questo posto».
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