July 15, 2021
Even at the Whole Foods, they were seeing genres and taking them apart.
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July 15, 2021
Even at the Whole Foods, they were seeing genres and taking them apart.
Gregg Bordowitz, Lauren Michele Jackson, Andrea Long Chu, Anahid Nersessian, Tavia Nyong'o, H. A. Sedgwick, Caleb Smith, Jean-Thomas Tremblay
June 21, 2019
On Binyavanga Wainaina, 1971–2019
Wainaina was in fine form the day we met, a mind on fire, and a cultural worker at the height of his powers. So the news this past week that we had lost him so early at age 48, of a stroke, hit my world hard. I had seen him in Berlin a couple years back, at one of the gatherings at Savvy Contemporary art gallery. He had suffered a racist attack while in Berlin, but was unbowed and determined to continue his sojourning. For many of us in diaspora, losing Binyavanga Wainaina felt like we were left with one less heartbeat in our chest. We have to spread his message to the world; we have the technology.
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January 10, 2008
How and when politicians address audiences in their native tongues is a constant preoccupation for Kenyans.