Writers are eccentric and out-of-the-way people. They are like characters out of their fiction. They shock, surprise and take their readers on wild trips. Take a study of the life of writers and you’ll get what I am writing about. The greater they are, the more their eccentricities. A famous writer is bound to have more of this than one that is not. The life of a writer is like good journalism, the bloodier the better.
He broke boundaries and pushed the envelope to a point he became a voice to be listened to on almost all matters African and literary. His most popular essaybecame a reference point for many about how to report the continent. His memoiris a book with a different narrative that tells a bit about everything. It is at once exciting and at another ordinary.
Wainaina courted controversy and lived his life to the full on his own terms. In 2014 against all odds, he came out openly to state his true status as gay and living with HIV. In his home country like in many countries on the continent being gay was a taboo. However, the fact that he was mostly living abroad and with his fame he never expected that anything untoward would happen to him.
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