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Biografia. Nata a Londra, ma cresciuta a Boston ( Massachusetts) in una famiglia di accademici. Ha una sorella gemella di nome Yetsa. La madre è una pediatra nigeriana nativa yoruba, rinomata per la sua difesa dei diritti dei bambini africani, mentre il padre è un chirurgo ghanese di etnia ewe.
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.
Biography. Selasi was born in London, England, and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, the elder of twin daughters in a family of academics. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in American Studies from Yale University and holds an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University.
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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.
Taiye Selasi è una scrittrice e fotografa, nata a Londra e cresciuta in Massachusetts, da padre ghanese e madre nigeriana. Si è laureata a Yale e ha conseguito un Master of Philosophy in Relazioni internazionali a Oxford.
10 giu 2011 · Taiye Selasi was born in London. She holds a BA from Yale and an MPhil from Oxford. Her short fiction was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2012 and she was named as one of Granta ’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013. Her debut novel, Ghana Must Go, was published in 2013.
Taiye Selasi is an author and photographer. Born in London and raised in Boston, she holds a BA in American Studies from Yale and an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford. In 2005, she published the seminal essay “Bye-Bye, Babar (Or: What is an Afropolitan?),” sparking a movement among transnational Africans.
