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How Not to Write About Africa, by Binyavanga Wainaina :Narrated by Djimon Hounsou
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“How not to write about Africa” is a satire piece by Kenyan born and raised and New York-based author and an award-winning journalist, Binyavanga Wainaina. Binyavanga is currently a Bard Fellow and Director at the Chinua Achebe Center for African Literature and Languages in Bard College.
How not to write about Africa has become Binyavanga’s most important work and is pursued to promote the Africa that most often is not embraced.
The impact from this profound piece has caught the attention of Benin born actor and model, Djimon Gaston Hounsou. This satire piece has awakened different opinions and some controversies along the way.
8 Responses to “How Not to Write About Africa, by Binyavanga Wainaina :Narrated by Djimon Hounsou”
Mazuba says:
October 20th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I love that poem and I think I will get it printed out an framed.
Satire « Kasalina says:
October 21st, 2009 at 1:53 pm
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ket says:
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 am
This is just greaaaaaaaaaaht…..
I can feel Africa retaliating… love it!!1
MW09 says:
October 29th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Love it!!
Lena says:
December 8th, 2009 at 10:33 am
finally somebody has put this in writing, good. Oh dear,am studying at Oxford at the moment,…and here is my line…’Oxford educated intellectual turned serial killing politician’ lol
LaTonya says:
December 31st, 2009 at 9:00 am
So many times Africa is portrayed as a country that needs help with all of its problems (devastating poverty, inadequate education, & uncivilized people). I thank Binyavanga for dispelling this myth.
MARK O says:
January 27th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Interesting , provocative and telling…
Zainab Jah says:
March 4th, 2010 at 12:22 am
PHWEHHH!! Breathe! Air! Thank you, finally!!! Now I can begin.
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