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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.
A writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian descent, born in London and raised in Boston, now living in Rome and Berlin, who has studied Latin and music, Taiye Selasi is herself a study in the modern meaning of identity.
Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of "multi-local" people, who feel at home in the town where they grew up, the city they live now and maybe another place or two. "How can I come from a country?" she asks. "How can a human being come from a concept?"
Oct 20, 2015 · Taiye Selasi: Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local | TED. When someone asks you where you're from … do you sometimes not know how to answer? Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of...
Critical perspective. Touted ahead of her debut Ghana Must Go (2013) as spokesperson for a new generation of ‘Afropolitan’ writers, Taiye Selasi begins a career with heavyweight mentors and daunting expectations.
Jun 15, 2018 · Taiye Selasi is a writer of Nigerian and Ghanaian descent, born in London, and raised in Boston. She has lived in New York, Berlin, Rome, and Lisbon, as well as regularly visiting...
Taiye Selasi was born in London and raised in Massachusetts. She holds a BA in American studies from Yale and an MPhil in international relations from Oxford University. “The Sex Lives of African Girls” ( Granta, 2011), Selasi’s fiction debut, appears in Best American Short Stories 2012.
