Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin. Read full biography of Taiye Selasi →
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer... →
Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.
I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly... →
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and... →
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... →
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I... →
That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off.... →
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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 -... →
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives... →
Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin.