Kenyan writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, author of Dust, and literary friend to Wainaina, calls out with a final lament:
Mkenya Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor ambaye ni mwandishi wa habari na mwandishi wa Dust, na kwa kweli rafiki wa Wainaina, anahitimisha kwa maombolezo ya mwisho: