Deciding what audiobook to listen to requires its own special calculus, related to but distinct from the factors we consider when picking a book off a shelf. From the Book Review’s own endless listening, we will select and review a different title each week, from a range of genres, to help you decide. HOW TO WRITE ABOUT AFRICA: Collected Works, by Binyavanga Wainaina. Reading Binyavanga Wainaina makes you sit up straight. Dismantling the Western world’s constructed myths and clichés about Africa, his art firmly orients you toward the reality of life across the most genetically diverse place on earth.

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Persons: Binyavanga Wainaina, Read, Dominic Hoffman, Yinka, Wainaina, ” Locations: Africa