Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Writer And LGBTQ Activist, Dies At 48 https://n.pr/2JVC8wc The author founded a platform for young Kenyan authors and came out as gay in a place where homosexuality has long been illegal. "Binyavanga was unbound in his imagining," said a friend and colleague. (Image credit: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images) https://n.pr/2JV25fi May 22, 2019 at 07:31PM - news

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Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Writer And LGBTQ Activist, Dies At 48 https://n.pr/2JVC8wc The author founded a platform for young Kenyan authors and came out as gay in a place where homosexuality has long been illegal. "Binyavanga was unbound in his imagining," said a friend and colleague. (Image credit: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images) https://n.pr/2JV25fi May 22, 2019 at 07:31PM

Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina, seen here during a January 2014 interview in Nairobi, has died at the age of 48. A founder of the Nairobi-based literary network Kwani?, Wainaina had come out as gay in a country where homosexuality was illegal.

The author founded a platform for young Kenyan authors and came out as gay in a place where homosexuality has long been illegal. "Binyavanga was unbound in his imagining," said a friend and colleague.

(Image credit: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images)



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