Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasi | |
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Selasi at the Erlanger Poetenfest, 2013 | |
| Born | Taiye Tuakli 2 November 1979 London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | Yale University (BA) Nuffield College, Oxford (Master of Philosophy) |
| Period | 2005–present |
| Literary movement | Realism, Drama |
| Notable works | Ghana Must Go (2013) |
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Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979 in London, England) is an American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome. In 2005, Selasi published "Bye-Bye, Babar (Or: What is an Afropolitan?)", her seminal text on Afropolitans. Her novel, Ghana Must Go, was published by Penguin in 2013.