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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.
Taiye Selasi is a writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian descent, who has published a novel and an essay on African identity. She challenges the notion of national belonging and asks us to consider where we are local instead of where we are from.
Writer Taiye Selasi explores the challenges and benefits of having multiple locales that feel like home. She challenges the question "where are you from?" and proposes a new way of thinking about belonging and identity.
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...
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Learn about the life and work of Taiye Selasi, a London-born writer of Nigerian and Ghanaian descent. Explore her fiction, essays and multimedia project on Afropolitan identity and culture.
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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.
