Byavanga Waaa, the award-wng Kenyan wrer who challenged stereotyp of Ai wh bg satire and took on prejudice by documentg his life as an openly gay man, has died aged 48.
Contents:
- A BOOK ON AND BY GAYS KENYA
- KENYAN CELEBRI WHO HAVE BEEN RUMOURED TO BE GAY
- GAY KENYAN WRER A STIR WH SA WEDDG PLANS
- BOOK NEWS: KENYAN WRER COM OUT IN DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAWS
A BOOK ON AND BY GAYS KENYA
The thor found a platform for young Kenyan thors and me out as gay a place where homosexualy has long been illegal. "Byavanga was unbound his imagg," said a iend and lleague. * gay kenyan writer *
A founr of the Nairobi-based lerary work Kwani?, Waaa had e out as gay a untry where homosexualy was illegal. The Kenyan wrer me out as gay 2014 an say he lled a "lost chapter" om a memoir he had wrten a few years earlier.
KENYAN CELEBRI WHO HAVE BEEN RUMOURED TO BE GAY
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The work, lled "I Am a Homosexual, Mum, " was no small feat for an thor livg Kenya, where same-sex relatnships have long been illegal.
GAY KENYAN WRER A STIR WH SA WEDDG PLANS
Byavanga Waaa ma the announcement an onle say on his 43rd birthday. He says the recent anti-gay legislatn Uganda and Nigeria fluenced his cisn to speak out now. * gay kenyan writer *
In a bter twist of fate, the untry's hight urt is expected to hand down a lg jt days after Waaa's ath — on Friday — on whether to crimalize homosexualy.
BOOK NEWS: KENYAN WRER COM OUT IN DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAWS
"I was fdg reasons and exc [not to wre about beg gay] for a long time, but I thk sometim you're jt ready, " Waaa told NPR 2014, referrg to anti-homosexualy laws that had recently passed Nigeria as another reason why he wrote . "In December 2012, his iend — a fellow gay man who had also spent his life mired pretense — got sick. Still, spe his ailments and the prevailg anti-gay laws of his home untry, Waaa found love: He announced last year that he would be gettg married.