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- Waina is a versatile artist, using many different styles and media and indulging in pottery, jewellery making and clothing design to name a few! The theme running through her work whatever the media used is one of unusual wonder at the natural world, combined with a quirky sense of humour which influences her choice of subjects.
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May 22, 2019 · Prize-winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina has died in Nairobi after a short illness at the age of 48. He won the Caine Prize for African writing in 2002 and was best known around the...
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Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author and a past winner of the...
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Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina (18 January 1971 – 21 May 2019) was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2003, he was the founding editor of Kwani? literary magazine. In April 2014, Time magazine included Wainaina in its annual Time 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World". [2]
Feb 29, 2024 · Remembered as an iconic name in Kenya’s literary history, Binyavanga Wainaina’s voice remains relevant in his most famous satirical works as well as through his pan-African values. His nonfiction writing captured attention from around the globe as he dug his roots deeper in Kenya. An avid reader, he.
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Waina Cheng was born in Lanzhou, China and brought up in Singapore. She began formal training at the age of eight with Chinese master painter Dr Chen Wen Hsi and studied Chinese Calligraphy and Western painting with him for eleven years. At the age of nineteen she left for England to study at the Oxford Brookes University with the renowned British ...
Her passion for painting anything that captured her attention started when she was a little girl – while her sisters were playing indoors she was out looking for creepy crawlies and drawing them. Through serious study in Chinese and Western techniques, she developed her own perspectives on the natural world and created her unique style of art. Her ...
Waina has been showing her work internationally since the age of eighteen. She has held exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeologyin Oxford, The National Museum of Singapore, Watatu Galleries in Kenya, Tarbox Gallery in California USA, Europaischen Patentamts in Germany and in at various other locations in Israel, Oxford and Cambridge...
“…Rather than allow the traditional art form to restrict her expression of the subject, she challenges the form instead. Calligraphic brushstrokes, vital to Chinese painting are evident.. at the same time, details accurately identifying the various species have not been spared.. one appreciates her skill at representing that most difficult of surfa...
Africa
“As a child I had always wanted to travel to wild places and finally, it just happened.” “No one was bitten by a snake, but we came across bandits and were held at gunpoint several times”
Painting
“I aim to capture the moods and personalities of these wonderful creatures who share our world” “Space is an integral part of the composition, almost as important as the subject itself. Only the minimum should be painted to express the maximum.”
The Environment
“I hope the exhibition will make people more aware of the need to preserve the animals and plants that we have, before it is too late” See also About waina.com
May 22, 2019 · Binyavanga Wainaina, the acclaimed Kenyan author who inspired a generation of writers and became one of the most prominent Africans ever to publicly identify as gay, died on Tuesday in Nairobi....
3 days ago · How Binyavanga Wainaina Wrote About Africa. The Kenyan author, who died in 2019, ruthlessly took down the clichés of writing about the continent. His work is as relevant as ever. The late Kenyan ...
Binyavanga Wainaina was the founding editor of Kwani?, a leading African literary magazine. He won the 2002 Caine Prize for African writing, and has written for Vanity Fair, Granta and the New York Times. He passed away in 2019 in Nairobi at the age of 48.
