Kenya: Author and LGBT Activist Binyavanga Wainaina Dies Aged 48

The 2002 Caine Prize winner for African Writing Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina is dead.

Wainaina, an acclaimed African literary giant and founder of the Nairobi-based journal Kwani, died on Tuesday night after suffering a stroke at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, according to his family.

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