Binyavanga Wainaina is in love.

He began posting a series of announcements on social media two weeks ago. “I am in love,” he wrote on Facebook.

Then last week: “Am getting married next year.”

And then a more detailed post:

I asked my love for his hand in marriage two weeks ago. He said yes, nearly immediately. He is Nigerian. We will be living in South Africa, where he will be studying next year. We will get married there, early next year. We will have a reception for Kenyans in Nairobi some time next year too. Nothing has surprised me more than coming to love this person, who is gentle and has the most gorgeous heart. I consider myself hugely lucky that he loves me and I have only recently fallen in love with him, but we have known each other and have been dating on and off since 2012.

In January 2014, in response to a spate of homophobic laws sweeping across African countries, Binyavanga came out as gay in a memoir titled “I Am Homosexual, Mum,” published in Africa Is a Country. That year, he was included in TIME Magazine’s list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

Congratulations to Binyavanga!

We’re happy for him.