International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs, in the VIP section in the front, looking for the Story: the Most Macheteing Deathest, Most Treasury Corruptest,… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
“Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.” — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I'm an African. I was brought up here; my home is here. Being an Afropolitan, I am here to stay. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
“Science is smaller than music, than the patterns of the body; the large confident world of sound and body gathers. If my mind and… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
