Loud Agenda in Silence and Omissions: A Critical Analysis of Binyavanga Wainaina's Memoir, One Day I Will Write about This Place

Abstract

A memoir is a literary genre, forming a subclass of the autobiography. The paper obtained critical analysis of Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir. It aims at identifying the silences and omissions in the memoir one day I will write about this place. Binyavanga emerges as an expert writer with sharpened artistic skills that are rare and unequaled in the modern African writing. In recent time he failed in handling the political scenario by been partisan in tribal mixing his views with politics. In my opinion, in as much as I agree that One Day I Will Write About This Place is a brilliant memoir, I equally feel that his biased political and ethnic stance cannot stand the test of modern literary times, leave alone political correctness.