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Taiye Selasi (Londres, 2 de noviembre de 1979) es una escritora y fotógrafa británica residente en Roma.
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.
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.
A transnational cosmopolite of Nigerian and Ghanaian descent, educated in Britain and the US, Selasi sees herself as part of a generation that possesses “a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to them.”.
Escritora y fotógrafa inglesa de origen nigeriano y ghanés, Taiye Selasi estudió en Yale y Oxford y es conocida tanto por sus relatos, aparecidos en revistas tan conocidas como Granta, como por su novela Lejos de Ghana.
Taiye Selasi es una escritora y fotógrafa que se siente ciudadana del mundo, de ahí que se defina como 'afropolita', un término que ella misma acuñó para referirse a esa juventud afrodescendiente que ha nacido como parte de la diáspora y que no necesariamente se siente identificada con África.
Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of "multi-local" people, who feel at home in the town where they grew up, the city they live now and maybe another place or two. "How can I come from a country?" she asks.
