EVENT: Binyavanga Wainaina to Speak at University of the Witwatersrand

Binyavanga Wainaina will be speaking at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

He will be in conversation with the researcher and writer Achal Prabhala and Danai Mupotsa, who is a PhD in African Literature with the faculty. They will be discussing “How to Write About Everything.” The topic is a play on Binyavanga’s seminal 2006 essay in Granta, “How to Write About Africa,” which remains the magazine’s most-viewed story.

Here are key details for the conversation.

Date: 25 July 2017.

Venue: Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room, University of the Witwatersrand.

Time: 6 PM.

Topic: “How to Write About Everything.”

It promises to be a stimulating one.