Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie paid homage to Binyavanga Wainaina yesterday evening, in a touching message read out at an event at Wits University in Johannesburg:

Binyavanga is one of my closest friends. He is one of the writers whose work I most admire. I think he is a great and rare and genuine talent.

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