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Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.

~ Binyavanga Wainaina

Binyavanga Wainaina Dreaming Inspirational Living

When art as an expression starts to appear, without prompting, all over the suburbs and villages of this country, what we are saying is: we are confident enough to create our own living, our own entertainment, our own aesthetic. Such an aesthetic will not be donated to us from the corridors of a university; or from the Ministry of Culture, or by the French Cultural Centre. It will come from the individual creations of a thousand creative people

~ Binyavanga Wainaina

Binyavanga Wainaina Culture Kenya Kwani

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 day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.

~ Binyavanga Wainaina

Binyavanga Wainaina Aid Cows Development Irony Kenya Ngo

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

~ Binyavanga Wainaina

Binyavanga Wainaina Want Fighting Citizens
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