Taiye Tuakli (1979-11-02) 2 November 1979 (age 44) London, United Kingdom
Occupation
Novelist
Education
Yale University (BA) Nuffield College, Oxford (MPhil)
Period
2005–present
Literary movement
Realism, Drama
Notable works
Ghana Must Go (2013)
Website
Taiye Selasi on Twitter
Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979 in London, England) is an American writer and photographer.[1][2] 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.
^Lewis, Tim (22 March 2013). "Taiye Selasi: 'I'm very willing to follow my imagination'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
^Selasi, Taiye (22 March 2013). "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
TaiyeSelasi (born 2 November 1979 in London, England) is an American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as...
continent. Afropolitanism is used and defined in various ways. The novelist TaiyeSelasi and the political theorist Achille Mbembe are immediately associated...
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Alongside Michael Ondaatje, Francine Prose, Peter Carey, Rachel Kushner, and TaiyeSelasi, Cole was one of six writers who protested the PEN American Center gala...
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Bowen Ola Rotimi Olufemi Terry Pelu Awofeso Sophie Oluwole Tade Thompson TaiyeSelasi Teju Cole Tolu Akinyemi Tolu' A Akinyemi Tomi Adeyemi Wole Soyinka...
Benjamin Markovits Nadifa Mohamed Helen Oyeyemi Ross Raisin Sunjeev Sahota TaiyeSelasi Kamila Shamsie Zadie Smith David Szalay Adam Thirlwell Evie Wyld Graeme...
alongside Michael Ondaatje, Teju Cole, Peter Carey, Rachel Kushner and TaiyeSelasi, withdrew from the group's annual awards gala and signed a letter dissociating...
and Carey Baraka. In its short period of existence, it has published TaiyeSelasi, Junot Díaz, Maaza Mengiste, Zukiswa Wanner, Namwali Serpell, Richard...
Abidemi Sanusi (living) Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) Mabel Segun (born 1930) TaiyeSelasi (born 1979) Lola Shoneyin (born 1974) Wole Soyinka (born 1934) Amos Tutuola...
Writers' Lectureship together with TaiyeSelasi, Priya Basil and Chika Unigwe, all of them writers representing what Selasi calls Afropolitan Literature. In...
since 2000), novelist Mabel Segun (born 1930), poet, children's writer TaiyeSelasi (born 1979), novelist, short story writer, photographer Lola Shoneyin...
Rice Bayeté Ross Smith Radcliffe Roye Addison N. Scurlock Mark Sealy TaiyeSelasi Robert A. Sengstacke Andres Serrano Jamel Shabazz John Shearer Yinka...
Monsters" Tin House George Saunders "Tenth of December" The New Yorker TaiyeSelasi "The Sex Lives of African Girls" Granta Sharon Solwitz "Alive" Fifth...
The Coincidence Authority Narrator Stella Duffy To Brixton Beach Lido TaiyeSelasi Ghana Must Go 2014 Alexander McCall Smith The Mystery of the Missing...
Pick, Marcello Di Cintio, Adam Gopnik, Barbara Kingsolver, Ruth Reichl, TaiyeSelasi, Sjón, Linn Ullmann, John Vaillant 2016: Cheryl Strayed, Elina Hirvonen...
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