I did not first experience Binyavanga the way I had wished to. I did so like a thief. I was fascinated by both his writing and his social media persona. Unconventional. His points were always distracted by more points. Sometimes he came back to the original idea. Sometimes he did not. Disappearing in a fuzzy […]
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A Tale of One Weird Book Cover—Binyavanga’s American Edition of One Day I’ll Write About This Place
Whoever told you it is bad to judge a book by its cover knows nothing about books as material objects that owe their fate to market forces. There have been books that have lived (or died) in the market place because of their covers. For the American edition of One Day I Will Write About […]
Which Two African Novelists Made The 2013 “Twitterati 100”?
Who do you need to follow on twitter to make sure you have a global handle on world events? Every year, Foreign Policy Magazine publishes a list of 100 people to help you decide. To be on that list is no mean feat. You are essentially the top hundred in a mass of 500 million […]
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