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. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes accra africa cotonou
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully. Taiye Selasi beautifullynovelisttruth Change image and share on social
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play. Taiye Selasi fictionformhave Change image and share on social
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, without that being somehow at the centre. Taiye Selasi centredefineinclude Change image and share on social
When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated. Jennifer Hudson africabarefootchange share on social
The struggle for Zimbabwe lit up the imagination of people around the world. In London, New York, Accra and Lagos, bell-bottomed men and women with big hair and towering platform shoes sang the dream of Zimbabwe in the words of the eponymous song by Bob Marley: Every man has the right to decide his own destiny. Petina Gappah accrabellbig share on social