Update: Binyavanga Wainaina Travels to India for Further Medical Care

 
The Kwani Trust has sent an update regarding the health of Binyavanga Wainaina.

The Kenyan author suffered a stroke on 31 October, and owing to complications needed to travel to India for tests.

The first fundraising drive has been a success:

Wainaina founded Kwani?, a Kenyan based literary network, 12 years ago, and since then over 500 writers have been published.

Kwani will also be hosting a #Love4Binya concert in Nairobi, Kenya on 5 December.

• More about the concert

• Contribute to the Binyavanga Wainaina Medical Fund here

• Read more: Urgent Appeal for Assistance to Raise Funds for Binyavanga Wainaina’s Medical Treatment

 
 
 
 
 
 
Related stories:

• Two New Books by Binyavanga Wainaina Acquired, Including One Based on His Excellent Essay “How to Write about Africa”
• Binyavanga Wainaina Explains why He’s Not “The Black Franzen from Africa”
• “Africa is Taking its Own Shape – and You are Not Even in that Conversation” – Binyavanga Wainaina Delivers a Public Lecture in Joburg
• “I Became an African in South Africa” – Read Binyavanga Wainaina’s Heartfelt Response to the Xenophobic Violence
• Binyavanga Wainaina Comes Out in “Lost Chapter” from One Day I Will Write About This Place

Book details

• One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
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• Kwani?: Bk. 4 edited by Binyavanga Wainaina
  EAN: 9789966983664
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• How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
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