Binyavanga Wainaina Kenyan Gay Rights Activist and Author Dies during 48

Binyavanga Wainaina, a happy award-winning author and romantic died on May 21, 2019. He was 48 years old.

Wainaina died in a sanatorium in Nairobi after pang from a brief illness. In 2015, he suffered from a stroke.

In 2002 Wainaina won for African essay a Caine Prize for “Discovering Home” that was a brief story. He was also a owner of Kwani, a literary magazine.

In 2014, Time Magazine named Wainaina one of a 100 many successful people for his activism for happy rights.

After winning a honor, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie pronounced he “Humanized and demystified homosexuality.”

Wainaina, a Kenyan, was one of a initial high form people to come out as being gay.

Adichie said, “he felt it was his avocation to mangle divided a contrition that people felt about being homosexual.”

Never to bashful divided from being gay, on Jan 20, 2014, Wainaina tweeted on Twitter “I am for anybody who doubts it or is confused, gay, homosexual, and happy.”

On Dec 1, 2016, World AIDS Day, he announced on Twitter his HIV standing tweeting “I’m HIV Positive, and we am happy.”

Wainaina also promoted African creativity, art, and culture. In 2010, he recognised a Pilgrimage project. This was a approach African essay could be promoted.

The plan would take 14 African writes to write about cities in Africa to write a biggest transport book associated to Africa.

Written by Barbara Sobel

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