Taiye Selasi (an haife ta 2 Nuwamba 1979) marubuciya kasar Ghana ce kuma Ba’amurke. 'Yar asalin Najeriya da Ghana, ta bayyana kanta a matsayin "yar unguwa" Accra, Berlin, New York da Rome. Taiye Selasi an haife ta a Landan, kuma ta girma a Brookline, Massachusetts, ita ce dattijon tagwaye mata na Dokta Lade Wosornu, 'yar Ghana, likitan tiyata a Saudi Arabia kuma marubucin wakoki da dama, da Dr. Juliette Tuakli, na Al'adun Najeriya, likitar yara a Ghana da ta shahara wajen fafutukar kare hakkin yara, ciki har da zama a hukumar United Way. Iyayen Selasi sun rabu lokacin tana jaririya. Ta hadu da mahaifinta na haihuwa yana da shekara 12. Sunan ta na nufin tagwaye na farko a Yarbawa ta mahaifar mahaifiyarta. Ta canza sunanta sau da yawa; An haife ta tare da sunan mahaifiyarta, sannan ta karɓi sunan uban mahaifinta (Williams), tana da shekaru 12 ta canza sunan nata zuwa na mahaifinta (Wosornu), daga baya ta yanke shawarar ɗaukar sunan laƙabi Tuakli-Wosornu (dukkan iyayenta).