Kenyan author and activist Binyavanga Wainaina has passed away, at the age of 48.

Wainaina passed away at 10 pm on Tuesday night at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi after a stroke, a family friend has confirmed to The JRB.

Wainaina won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, for his short story ‘Discovering Home’. He was the founding editor of Kwani?, a journal of experimental writing, which he established in 2003, and the author of the acclaimed memoir, One Day I Will Write About This Place. He was also well known for his satirical essay ‘How to Write About Africa’, published in Granta in 2012.

• View The JRB’s obituary of the extraordinary writer here. 

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