Award-winning author on African literature and why writing fiction is a form of meditation

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July 13, 2016 9:39 AM

Taiye Selasi in an interview with the Ake festival team speaks about her debut novel 'Ghana Must Go' , writing as a form of meditation and the future of African literature.

Taiye Selasi

Award-winning author of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, Taiye Selasi in an interview with the Ake festival team spoke about her debut novel 'Ghana Must Go' , writing as a form of meditation and the future of African literature.

With Ghanaian and Nigerian lineage, Taiye Selasi was born in London and raised in Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford.

"The Sex Lives of African Girls" (Granta, 2011), Selasi’s fiction debut, appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012. In 2013 Granta named her to its once-every-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists.

Selasi's first novel "Ghana Must Go" (Penguin, 2013), a New York Times bestseller, has been sold in 16 countries. She lives in Rome.

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