The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has named Binyavanga Wainaina to its list of people around the world worth watching in 2008.
The Kenyan-born Wainaina is the final year of a three-year term as the College's Writer-in-Residence.
Last summer, Wainaina was a guest contributor to Vanity Fair’s special issue devoted to Africa and wrote an essay for Harper's.
He was also a finalist for a National Magazine Award, the magazine industry’s highest honor.
In 2002, he won the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story, “Discovering Home,” and The Independent, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, named him one of the 50 best artists in Africa.
To read about Wainaina and the others on the list of people around the world worth watching in 2008, click here (registration may be required).