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12th January 2017 / Foundation /

Taiye Selasi was a resident at the Villa Lena Foundation in April/May of 2016.  Taiye is a writer, whose first book “Ghana Must Go”, published in 2013, has been translated into 18 languages and sold in 22 countries.  Taiye describes her writing as lyrical, dense and circular.  On a quiet afternoon in April Taiye read excepts both from her book, Ghana Must Go and from a haunting short story she wrote, “The Sex Lives of African Girls”.

 

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