"International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty……" — Binyavanga Wainaina
"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, Most Entrail-Eating Civil Warest, Most Crocodile-Grinning Dictatorest, MOst Heart-Wrenching and Genociding Pulitzerest, Most Black Big-Eyed Oxfam Child Starvingest, Most Wild African Savages Having AIDS-Ridden Sexest with Genetically Mutilatedest Girls...The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest story they can find..."
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Binyavanga Wainaina
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16 Quotes by Binyavanga Wainaina
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I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan…
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It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake…
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I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
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There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
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Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the…
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Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated
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I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
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Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African…
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When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a…
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Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
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I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.
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I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for…
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