About Taiye Selasi: Taiye Selasi is a writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin.
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.
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
