Kenyan author and activist Binyavanga Wainaina has died at the age of 48, the publication he founded announced.
Wainaina, founder of the literary magazine Kwani, passed away following a short illness, the chairman of the Nairobi-based magazine told The Daily Nation on Wednesday.
Tom Maliti said the writer died a few minutes past 10pm (19:00 GMT) on Tuesday at a Nairobi hospital.
Wainaina had won the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story “Discovering Home” in 2002.
Following the passage of a series of anti-gay laws across Africa in 2014, Wainaina publicly announced that he was gay.
In December 2016, Wainaina posted on Twitter that he was HIV-positive.
The Time Magazine in 2014 included Wainaina in its list of the “Most Influential People in the World”.
SOURCE:
Al Jazeera and news agencies
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