The Creative Writing Reading Series: Taiye Selasi

Event time: 
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 5:00pm
Location: 
Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC) See map
63 High St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Taiye Selasi, born in London and raised in Massachusetts, is a writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin; though she describes herself as a local of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford.
Her 2005 essay “What Is An Afropolitan?” gave a face to a class of sophisticated, cosmopolitan young Africans who defy downtrodden stereotypes. “The Sex Lives of African Girls” (Granta, 2011), Selasi’s fiction debut, appears in Best American Short Stories 2012. Her novel, Ghana Must Go (Penguin Press, 2013) – named after the Nigerian phrase directed at incoming Ghanaian refugees during political unrest in the 80s – was received with great acclaim.

Open to: 
General Public

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