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Taiye Selasi

  • Skill Category: Writers
  • Present Address: New York, US
  • Country: Nigeria/Ghana
  • Email: yanglada@pengui
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Biography

Born in London in 1979 and raised in Massachusetts, of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, Taiye Selasi is a writer, photographer and filmmaker. She has a degree in American Studies from Yale University and earned her master’s degree in International Relations from Oxford University. In 2005 she published her seminal essay Bye-Bye, Babar (Or: What is an Afropolitan?) (LIP Magazine, 2005), offering an alternative view of African identity for transnational generations. In 2011 she made her fictional debut with the short story The Sex Lives of African Girls (Granta, 2011), selected for Best American Short Stories 2012 (Mariner Books, 2012). In 2013 she published her first novel, Ghana Must Go (Penguin Press, 2013), which made the bestseller list of The New York Times and the 10 Best Books of 2013 of The Wall Street Journal and The Economist. With director Teddy Goitom of Stocktown Films, Selasi is executive producer of AFRIPEDIA, a six-part documentary about African creatives. With producers Fernando Meirelles and Hank Levine, she is working on EXODUS, a documentary about global migration.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

In 2013, Selasi was selected as one of Granta′s 20 Best Young British Writers and in 2014 named to the Hay Festival’s Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40 “with the potential and talent to define trends in African literature.

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