Indeed there are several issues in this book that would make for robust all-night drunken debates. Wainaina pulls no punches, he lays it all out there, self-absorbed warts and all. This memoir is a delightful and important coming of age book that describes Wainaina’s world (and our world) with riotous clarity and shimmering brilliance. Let me just say that he has written the memoir that many writers are too chicken to write. One is reminded repeatedly that there’s no fine line between brilliance and lunacy Wainaina is a brilliant lunatic. Wainaina entertains and educates with his brilliance and lunacy as displayed in the many exhilarating chapters of this unusual memoir. Scratch “African,” every thinker should read this enigmatic book by one of the most enigmatic thinkers I have never met. Graywolf Press 272 pagesĮvery African thinker should find a copy of Binyavanga Wainaina’s new book, One Day I Will Write about This Place and read it carefully from front to back. Book Review: One Day I Will Write About This Place.
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