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Book of the Week: Binyavanga Wainaina - One Day I Will Write About This Place

Book of the Week: Binyavanga Wainaina - One Day I Will Write About This Place: Episode 5

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One Day I Will Write about This Place

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Binyavanga Wainaina - One Day I Will Write About This Place

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Binyavanga Wainaina - One Day I Will Write About This Place, Episode 5

Desperately homesick, Wainaina returns home to Kenya and a memorable family reunion.

Having felt desperately homesick in South Africa, Wainaina finally returns home to Kenya and a memorable family reunion. Read by Freddy Macha.

By Binyavanga Wainaina.

Having felt desperately homesick in South Africa, and not enjoying his university course, Wainaina has lost his way. But finally he gets the call to return home to Kenya and a memorable family reunion.

Read by Freddy Macha. Abridged by Jane Marshall 


Produced by Jane Marshall 
A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4.

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Binyavanga Wainaina's impressionistic memoir of growing up in modern-day Kenya

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