Sunday night on Twitter with Binyavanga Wainaina

From Africa is a Country Wed Apr 9 2014, 13:00:16

We sometimes joke that often when we're online the only other person who's consistently awake and on Twitter (no matter where he is in the world) is Binyavanga Wainaina. It's like, if you blink, you miss out on some pronouncement by him. Though he has been an active social media user for a while now, it was after he came out on January 18th, that he has gone into overdrive. And you can't look away. No one else we know, talking about Africans and their relations to the West (not on Western terms), is in such blistering form right now. Take Sunday night when--from a hotel balcony in Dakar; he was in town to give a lecture--he just went in

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