Binyavanga Wainaina | Podcast

Binyavanga Wainaina & Ellah Allfrey

Binyavanga Wainaina | Podcast

Binyavanga Wainaina & Ellah Allfrey

Binyavanga Wainaina, a founding editor of Kwani? and author of the celebrated essay ‘How to Write About Africa’, reads from his long-awaited memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place and talks to Ellah Allfrey about meeting the expectations of an African readership and what to do with a bad review.

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