page_title: Taiye Selasi
hierarchical_section_title: Taiye Selasi
caption_attribution_description: Writer and photographer Taiye Selasi (* 1979) at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2013.
context_page_description: Taiye Selasi is a British-American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome.
context_section_description: Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a British-American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome.
caption: Selasi at the Erlanger Poetenfest, 2013
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