1. Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing.
11 Facts About Binyavanga Wainaina
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Binyavanga Wainaina was born on 18 January 1971 in Nakuru in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.
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Binyavanga Wainaina attended Moi Primary School in Nakuru, Mangu High School in Thika, and Lenana School in Nairobi.
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Binyavanga Wainaina later studied commerce at the University of Transkei in South Africa, where he went to live in 1991.
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Binyavanga Wainaina completed an MPhil in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2010.
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Binyavanga Wainaina wrote for The EastAfrican, National Geographic, The Sunday Times, Granta, The New York Times, Chimurenga and The Guardian.
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In 2007, Binyavanga Wainaina was a writer-in-residence at Union College in Schenectady, NY.
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Binyavanga Wainaina was a Bard Fellow and the director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African Literature and Languages at Bard College.
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Binyavanga Wainaina collected more than 13,000 recipes from around Africa and was an expert on traditional and modern African cuisine.
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On 1 December 2016, World AIDS Day, Binyavanga Wainaina announced on his Twitter profile that he was HIV positive, "and happy".
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Binyavanga Wainaina died, aged 48, after a stroke on the evening of 21 May 2019, at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, according to news and family sources.