Kenyan author and LGBT activist Binyavanga Wainaina has died at the age of 48. Wainaina, the founder of the literary magazine Kwani, passed away following a short illness, the chairman of the Nairobi-based magazine told The Daily Nation newspaper on Wednesday. Tom Maliti said the writer died a few minutes past 10pm (19:00 GMT) on Tuesday at a Nairobi hospital. Wainaina had won the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story Discovering Home in 2002. Following the passage of a series of anti-gay laws across Africa in 2014, Wainaina publicly announced that he was gay. In December 2016, Wainaina posted on Twitter that he was HIV-positive. Time Magazine in 2014 included Wainaina in its list of the Most Influential People in the World.The post Kenyan author and LGBT activist Binyavanga Wainaina dies at 48 appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.
Kenyan author and LGBT activist Binyavanga Wainaina dies at 48
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