Chimurenga to Host Binyavanga Wainaina in Conversation with Harry Garuba

Penguin Books and Chimurenga are pleased to invite you to the launch of Binyavanga Wainaina’s acclaimed memoir, One Day I Will Write About This Place. The launch will take place on 2 December at the Old Slave Church in Long Street, Cape Town, where Wainaina will be in conversation with UCT‘s Harry Garuba. Wainaina will also deliver a reading from the book.

Don’t miss it!

“If words, in English, arranged on the page have the power to control my body in this world, this sound and language can close its folds, like a fan, and I will slide into its world, where things are arranged differently.”

Seven years in the making, spanning Wainaina’s middle-class upbringing in Kenya, his failed attempt to study in South Africa, a moving family reunion in Uganda, his travels around Kenya, music, soccer, food, politricks, beauty, tragedy, fragile ripeness, sexual fantasy, love and philosophy, One Day I Will Write About This Place has been released to widespread critical acclaim.

• More about the event at Chimurenga

Event Details

• Date: Friday, 02 December 2011
• Time: 6:30 PM
• Venue: Old Slave Church,
  SA Mission Museum,
  40 Long Street,
  Cape Town | Map
• Guest Speaker: Harry Garuba

Book Details

• One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
  Book Homepage
  EAN: 9781847080219
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