🌍 Africa Jul 30, 2026 · Njuki Githethwa

Had he been buried

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Binyavanga Wainaina was cremated in a private ceremony in 2019. In his final year, the writer kept returning to a colonial chief’s grave beneath a sacred fig tree in Nairobi — as if contemplating what remains of a life.

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