![]() ![]() ![]() Set in Sudan, the unnamed narrator returns home following years studying in England. Considering that every Christmas we still listen to Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, a song that paints a picture of an Africa “Where nothing ever grows”, his comments from the 2006 essay remain relevant.Īlthough Binyavanga Wainaina’s essay is clearly a send-up of a certain kind of literature, many of the tropes that he focuses on can be found in the seminal novel Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, published in 1966. ![]() Running through a list that ends with “Because you care”, he systematically tears down the images and literary devices used to write about Africa. In his essay ‘How to Write about Africa’, Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina plays on stereotypes about the continent with humour and jarring satire. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. This is an anonymous student-written post. ![]()
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