Nigerian author and feminist, Chimamanda Adichie has mourned the death of renowned Kenyan authorΒ Binyavanga WainainaΒ who died of HIV.
Chimamanda shared a picture the both of them took together and captioned it:
Binyavanga Wainaina. (1971 β 2019)
So kind, so generous, so humorous, so brilliant, so brave, so
talented, so knowledgeable, so wonderfully curious, so original.
I am struggling. To use the past tense. To stop crying.
My beloved βCanga.β There is nobody else remotely like you. Nobody.
With you, I felt so known, so understood. And there is no gift, in a
friendship, more precious than this.
I love you. Always. Rest well.
Chimamanda
Before his death, Wainaina won the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story Discovering Home in 2002.
