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03163aam a2200433 i 4500 001 8F3A238217D411EEB984481F40ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230701010016 008 230329s2022 nyu 000 m eng 010 $a 2023014554 020 $a 0812989651 020 $a 9780812989656 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ 050 00 $a PR9381.9 $b .W25 2022 082 00 $a 814.6 $2 23/eng/20230329 082 04 $a 824/.92 $2 23/eng/20230627 100 1 $a Wainaina, Binyavanga, $e author. 240 10 $a Works. 245 10 $a How to write about Africa : $b collected works / $c Binyavanga Wainaina ; edited by Achal Prabhala. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b One World, $c 2022. 300 $a x, 347 pages ; $c 25 cm. 505 00 $g A Continent of Satire -- $t How to Write about Africa. $g Away in South Africa and England -- $t A Foreigner in Cape Town -- $t Food Slut -- $t Cured of England -- $g Discovering Home: Essays -- $t Circumcision -- $t Discovering Home -- $t Joga of Mathare Valley -- $t Hair -- $t Travels through Kalenjinland -- $t I Hate Githeri -- $t Who Invented Truth? -- $t Inventing a City -- $t She's Breaking Up -- $g Writing Kenya: Short Stories -- $t All things Remaining Equal -- $t Hell is in Bed with Mrs Peprah -- $t An Affair to Dismember -- $t According to Mwangi -- $t Ships in High Transit -- $g Out in Africa: Essays -- $t The Continental Dispatch -- $t Beyond River Yei -- $t The Most Authentic, Blackest, Africanest Soccer Team -- $g A Continent of Satire -- $t How to be a Dictator -- $t How to be an African -- $t The Senegal of the Mind -- $t How to Write about Africa. 520 $a "Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist, and a gatherer of literary communities. Before his tragic death in 2019 at the age of forty-seven, he won the Caine Prize for African Writing and was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People. His wildly popular essay "How to Write About Africa," an incisive and unapologetic piece that exposed the harmfully racist ways Western media depicts Africa, with implicit bias and subjective clichés, changed the game for African writers and helped set the stage for a new generation of authors, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Yaa Gyasi. When Wainaina published a "lost chapter" of his 2011 memoir as an essay called "I Am a Homosexual, Mum," which imagines coming out to his mother, he became a voice for the queer, African community as well, adding a new layer to how African sexuality is perceived"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Africa. 651 7 $a Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239509. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African. $2 bisacsh. 655 7 $a Essays. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919922. 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726740. 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, $d 1977- $e writer of introduction. 700 1 $a Prabhala, Achal, $e editor. 941 $a 2 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012512.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230701010121.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8F3A238217D411EEB984481F40ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search