"Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated"

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Source : "Binyavanga Wainaina interview: coming out in Kenya". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2014.

Binyavanga Wainaina

“Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.”
“To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.”
“Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.”
“The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that it's boring, it's difficult to understand, we need to have high minded people like "Greenscum" and Bernanke to do things like this (and don't forget Volker, there's the whole cast of them). The thing is that people have been educated or miseducated or brainwashed into believing that this is wayyyy too complicated for regular people to understand and that we need to let PhD economists guide us along in terms of what's right... and that's all bull.”
“Even though my angel has forgiven me and rescued me, who on earth will save him, who cannot be allowed into the light of the sun, who has lost his name, who can only hide himself in the world of darkness?”
“The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.”
“In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.”
“I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.”

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