Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina has demonstrated moral courage to spare in recent days
Mark Twain once observed how curious it was that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. One person who has demonstrated moral courage to spare in recent days is the Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina. Mr Wainaina, one of Africa's leading literary figures, outed himself via a short story titled I am a Homosexual, Mum in which he imagined telling his mother on her deathbed that he was gay. "Nobody, nobody, ever in my life has heard this," Mr Wainaina wrote. "I did not trust you, mum." In a subsequent series of free-form YouTube videos, Mr Wainaina has explained how he was motivated to come out when a gay friend's family were thrown out of their church for trying to organise a memorial service for their dead son. There could be few better ripostes to that act, or to the recent wave of homophobic legislation in Nigeria and Uganda, than Mr Wainaina's declaration.
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