Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasiis a writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome...
NationalityGhanaian
ProfessionWriter
CountryGhana
novelists telling-the-truth asks
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
emotional long sound
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
humans human-beings concepts
How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?
creative identity west
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.