Award-winning writer and LGBTQ activist, Binyavanga Wainaina, dies aged 48
Tributes have flooded social media following the death of award-winning Kenyan writer, Binyavanga Wainaina.
In July 2002 he won the Caine Prize for his short story Discovering Home and his other published books include, How to Write about Africa in 2006 and One Day I will Write about this Place in 2012. In 2014 in an interview with the Associated Press he said, "All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit. Everyone, we, we homosexuals, are people and we need our oxygen to breathe."
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