Kwani Trust

• How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina

  Posted: March 24, 2008, 1:33 pm by Kwani

  Author: Binyavanga Wainaina
  Series: Kwanini

  This trio of sharp-witted essays takes irony to a new level. In How to Write About Africa, Wainaina dissects the African clichés and preconceptions dear to western writers and readers with a ruthless precision. (more…)

• You in America by Chimamanda Adichie

  Posted: March 24, 2008, 1:29 pm by Kwani

  Author: Chimamanda Adichie
  Series: Kwanini

  This is a love story disguised as a travelogue, the tale of a young Nigerian woman who wins a lottery whose prize is a green card to America. Does everyone there own a big house, a big car, and a gun? Not quite, though it turns out there are worse things than guns. Chimamanda Adichie takes us effortlessly from the shanties of Lagos to downtown Connecticut, where love – uninvited but not unwelcome – turns up to eat at a restaurant.

• Weight of Whispers by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Posted: March 24, 2008, 1:12 pm by Kwani

  Author: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
  Series: Kwanini
  Awards: 2003 Caine Prize

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor followed Wainaina’s example by winning the 2003 Caine Prize with her evocative tale of a Rwandan aristocrat who fled to Kenya in the wake of the 1994 genocide. The characters in Weight of Whispers come draped in history, wrapping the world’s dramas around their own as they struggle to adjust to their lengthy fall from grace. In this story of exile and death, Owuor draws us masterfully into a quest for light, and life.

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