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Binyavanga memoir shortlisted for Wright Legacy Award

Binyavanga Wainaina and his memoir. Photo/File

Binyavanga Wainaina's book One Day I will Write about This Place has been shortlisted for the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, in the non-fiction category.

Other books nominated in the same category are Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and The Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry, Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir by Mark Whitaker.

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