Binyavanga Wainaina

Activist, Artist, Brainstormer, Idea generator, Journalist, Social entrepreneur, World traveler, Writer/Editor

I am a writer and the founding editor of kwani? (www.kwani.org) - a well-known literary magazine in Kenya. I am the visitIng writer at Union College in Upstate New York. I do some magazine writing. Mostly I try to find ways to make things happen for creative writers. I am part of a new generation of writers and editors who are determined to rebuilt the distribition of quality writing within the continent. I have a special blog set up for TED at http://thebinjtedblog.blogspot.com/

Helping build an intimate, creative and insightful continent. With words.

Said the Senegelese man, to the foreign correspondent: “Mr. Locke, we can have a conversation but only if it's not just what you think is sincere, but also what I believe to be honest.” The Passenger. 1975. Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Starring Jack Nicholson

Creative thinking, Journalism, Lateral Thinking, Literary Entrepreneurship, Public Speaking, talent developer, Team Building and motivation, Writer/Editor

We can crunch all the numbers we want, it will not start to make sense until our lives take shape to each other through the stories we tell. We are in the season of bold leaps of the imagination.

listening. cooking.