I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

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  I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'

• Binyavanga Wainaina:

  There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't

• Binyavanga Wainaina:

  We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sis

• Binyavanga Wainaina:

  All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

• Binyavanga Wainaina:

  I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for

• Binyavanga Wainaina:

  Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.

• Binyavanga Wainaina:

  Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

• Binyavanga Wainaina:

  I love playing with words and texture.

• Binyavanga Wainaina:

  I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

• Binyavanga Wainaina:

  I'm an African. I was brought up here; my home is here. Being an Afropolitan, I am here to stay.