The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

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  When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the

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  I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

• Taiye Selasi:

  I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

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  As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

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  My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into th

• Taj Mahal:

  I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

• Taj Mahal:

  I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

• Taj Mahal:

  I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.

• Taj Mahal:

  I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.

• Taj Mahal:

  I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp