Among your characters you must always include The Starving African, who wanders the refugee camp nearly naked, and waits for the benevolence of the W… - Binyavanga Wainaina

There is an ache in my chest today, sweet, searching, and painful, like a tongue that is cut and tingles with sweetness and pain after eating a strong pineapple.

We fail to trust that we knew ourselves to be possible from the beginning.

The Modern African is a fat man who steals and works in the visa office, refusing to give work permits to qualified Westerners who really care about Africa. He is an enemy of development, always using his government job to make it difficult for pragmatic and good-hearted expats to set up NGOs or Legal Conservation Areas.