Taiye Selasi
British-American writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1979 · age 47
Taiye Selasi is a British-American author and filmmaker best known for her bestselling novel and viral TED Talk.
Taiye Selasi is read about 71 times a day, in 20 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 17 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
2018OkayAfrica 100 WomenAward2013“Loss is a notion. No more than a thought. Which one forms or one doesn’t. With words.”In their wordsGhana Must Go (2013)“She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.”In their wordsTalking about disconnection, thought and sleep“Death must take place in the heart to be believed in. After love dies man believes in his death.”In their wordsRelationship between the hear, love and death“Your baby is crying," says the driver to Taiwo, the Ghanaian way of saying your cell phone is ringing.”In their wordsHumourous way of saying one's phone is ringing“There was the one basic storyline, which everyone knew, with the few custom endings to choose now and again.”In their wordsPatriarchy“They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all. They were dreamer-women.”In their wordsThoughts about insatiable women1979Born2 November 1979
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United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1979 · age 47
