So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

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• Taiye Selasi:

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  I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

• Taiye Selasi:

  The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

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• Taiye Selasi:

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• Taiye Selasi:

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• Taiye Selasi:

  The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lom

• Taiye Selasi:

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