“I am, for anybody confused or in doubt, a homosexual. Is4BMxXhkrįollowing the passage of a series of anti-gay laws across Africa in 2014, Wainaina publicly announced that he was gay. Wainaina had won the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story Discovering Home in 2002.Īward-winning Kenyan writer and activist Binyavanga Wainaina, once listed as one of Time Magazine's 'most influential people’, has passed away. In November 2015, Wainaina suffered a stroke. Tom Maliti said the writer died a few minutes past 10pm (19:00 GMT) on Tuesday at a Nairobi hospital. Wainaina, the founder of the literary magazine Kwani, passed away following a short illness, the chairman of the Nairobi-based magazine told The Daily Nation newspaper on Wednesday. Kenyan author and activist Binyavanga Wainaina has died at the age of 48, the publication he founded announced.
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