Popular Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is in pains as she cannot help it but mourn the painful exit of her Kenyan friend, Binyavanga Wainaina who died recently at the age of 48.

Taking to her Instagram page, Chimamanda shared series of their photos together and wrote;  

“So kind, so generous, so humorous, so brilliant, so brave, so talented, so knowledgeable, so wonderfully curious, so original. I am struggling. To use the past tense. To stop crying.”

“My beloved ‘Canga.’ There is nobody else remotely like you. Nobody. With you, I felt so known, so understood. And there is no gift, in a friendship, more precious than this.”

“I love you. Always. Rest well.”