![]() No word yet on whether “How to Write About Africa” will turn into a trilogy, but Africaphiles can hope. ![]() So I wrote a long-truly long-rambling email to the editor.”įor more of the story behind the story, check out the Bidoun Web site. No, we were ‘over there,’ where brave people in khaki could come and bear witness. A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainainas extraordinary life In your text, treat. There was nothing new, no insight, but lots of ‘reportage’-Oh, gosh, wow, look, golly ooo-as if Africa and Africans were not part of the conversation, were not indeed living in England across the road from the Granta office. How to Write About Africa rrp 16.99 Description. I was responding to its “Africa” issue, which was populated by every literary bogeyman that any African has ever known, a sort of ‘Greatest Hits of Hearts of Fuckedness.’ It wasn’t the grimness that got to me, it was the stupidity. In a fit of anger, maybe even low blood sugar-it runs in the family-I spent a few hours one night at my graduate student flat in Norwich, England, writing to the editor of Granta. ![]() “How to Write about Africa” grew out of an email. ![]()
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