USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [NigeriaWorldForum] Oprah Selects Novel By Kenyan Author,Wainaina

An Oprah selection can make significant difference to a writer's sales and her show was a vital US centred strategy for publicity by anyone seeking such publicity.

According to one account, the African-American Nobel prize winner Toni Morrison made more sales after the Oprah show endorsement than after her Nobel prize win.

I find it also tragic, though, that she made no comment on the death of Michael Jackson.

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Oprah Selects Novel By Kenyan Author

 

One Day I Will Write About This Place, a debut memoir by award-winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, has been selected by the O, The Oprah Magazine for its 2011 summer reading list.

According to a post on Oprah's blog, Wainaina's novel, a memoir, "…explores tribal racism, political unrest and Western influences on his homeland with an innocence and confusion that bring such humanity to these larger issues."

One of Kenya's most mesmerizing writers, Wainaina was selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a Global Young Leader in January 2007. He is the 2002 recipient of the Caine Prize for African writing, and is author of How to write about Africa, one of the most hilarious satirical pieces ever written about Africa.

He is the co-founder of Kwani?, East Africa's leading literary journal, and currently serves as the director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African Literature and Languages at Bard College, New York.

One Day I Will Write About This Place was one of 27 books that made Oprah's 2011 summer reading list.

 

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Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

www.ugowrite.blogspot.com

 

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