Award-winning Nigerian author and a grand feminist, Chimamanda Adichie, has paid heart-warming tributes to the late renowned Kenyan author, Binyavanga Wainaina, describing his demise as a loss of a “precious friend.’’

Adichie, professed her undying love for the Caine Prize 2012 winner, sharing dated photos taken with the late author on her Instagram handle.

It reads:

“Binyavanga Wainaina. (1971 – 2019)

“So kind, generous, humorous, brilliant, brave, talented, knowledgeable, wonderfully curious, and 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. Chimamanda.”

The 2002 Caine Prize winner, Binyavanga Wainaina has passed on at the age of 48.

The chairman of the Nairobi-based magazine disclosed on Wednesday that the Kenyan author and activist, founder of the literary magazine Kwani, passed away after a short illness.

Tom Maliti said the Kenyan writer passed on a few minutes past 10pm (19:00 GMT) on Tuesday at a Nairobi hospital.

The Kenyan author and activist had won the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story "Discovering Home" in 2002.

Following the passage of a series of anti-gay laws across Africa in 2014, Wainaina publicly revealed that he was gay.

In December 2016, Wainaina posted on Twitter that he was HIV-positive.

The Time Magazine in 2014 have the inclusion of the Kenyan author and activist in its list of the "Most Influential People in the World".

Here are some of the pictures that depict lovely moments they had together as shared by Adichie: