Taiye Selasi

**Taiye Selasi** (an haife tane 2 ga watan Nuwamban shekarar 1979) marubuciyar ƙasar Ghana ce kuma Ba’amerikiya. 'Yar asalin Najeriya da Ghana, ta bayyana kanta a matsayin "yar unguwa" Accra, Berlin, New York da Rome.

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
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). Sunaye na ƙarshe), daga baya ta canza sunan sunanta zuwa Selasi, kalma daga yaren Ewe, da ta fassara da “addu’ar amsa” ko kuma “Allah ya ji”.

Selasi ta kammala karatun summa cum laude da Phi Beta Kappa tare da digiri na BA a cikin karatun Amurka daga Yale, kuma ta sami MPhil a dangantakar kasa da kasa daga Kwalejin Nuffield, Oxford. 'Yar'uwarta tagwaye, Yetsa Kehinde Tuakli, likita ce a Amurka. 'Yar Afirka ta farko a cikin kwamitin wasannin nakasassu na kasa da kasa, ta fafata a gasar tsalle-tsalle mai tsayi na 'yan wasan Ghana.

## Aiki
A cikin 2005 The LIP Magazine ya buga "Bye-Bye, Babar (Ko: Menene Afropolitan?)", Seminal rubutu na Selasi a kan Afropolitans. A cikin "Bye Bye Babar", Selasi ta kwatanta sabon ƴan ƙasashen Afirka; wani babban haɗin gwiwa wanda ya yarda da bambancinsa: "Wataƙila abin da ya fi kwatanta fahimtar Afropolitan shine ƙin ƙaddamarwa; ƙoƙari na fahimtar abin da ke da lafiya a Afirka tare da sha'awar girmama abin da ke da ban mamaki, na musamman." Selasi ba ta neman a san ta a matsayin wanda ta kafa Afropolitanism, "Ta ba da shawarar kada ta yi iƙirarin cewa ta ƙirƙira shi, kuma ta yi watsi da rawar da ta taka a cikin dukan abin da ya biyo baya." Tattaunawar Afropolitanism ta karu bayan rubutun, kuma wannan ya ba da hanya ga masana kamar Simon Gikandi da Achille Mbembe don "ƙara haɓaka" kalmar, Afropolitan, zuwa cikin sanannen akidar da aka yi amfani da ita. A shekarar da ta rubuta makalar, ta rubuta wani wasan kwaikwayo wanda Avery Willis, yayan Toni Morrison ya shirya a wani karamin gidan wasan kwaikwayo.

A cikin 2006 Morrison ya ba Selasi wa'adin shekara guda; ta rubuta "The Sex Lives of African Girls" don saduwa da shi. Labarin, wanda mujallar wallafe-wallafen Birtaniya *Granta* ta buga a cikin 2011, ya bayyana a cikin *Mafi kyawun Gajerun Labarai na Amurka 2012* .

A cikin 2010 Ann Godoff a Penguin Press ya sayi littafin Selasi wanda ba a gama ba. An buga *Ghana Must Go* a cikin 2013. Diana Evans ce ta yaba da ita a cikin *The Guardian*, Margaret Busby a cikin *The Independent*, ta *The Economist*, da *The Wall Street Journal*. An zaɓa a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin 10 Mafi kyawun Littattafai na 2013 ta *The* *Wall Street Journal* da *The Economist*, an sayar da shi a cikin ƙasashe 22 kamar na 2014.

A cikin 2013 an zaɓi Selasi a matsayin ɗayan *Granta* 's 20 Mafi kyawun Marubutan Birtaniyya na 20 kuma a cikin 2014 mai suna Hay Festival 's Africa39 jerin marubutan Afirka na kudu da hamadar Sahara 39 'yan ƙasa da shekaru 40 "tare da iyawa da hazaka. ayyana yanayin adabin Afirka."

Selasi tana yin haɗin gwiwa akai-akai tare da abokan aikin fasaha. A cikin 2012 ta yi haɗin gwiwa tare da mai zane David Adjaye don ƙirƙirar ɗakin karatu na Kogin Gwangju, ɗakin karatu na sararin sama wanda aka gina a cikin 2013 a matsayin wani ɓangare na Gwangju Biennale's Fooly II. Tare da darakta Teddy Goitom, wanda ya kafa Stocktown, Selasi babban mai gabatar da shirye-shiryen *Afripedia* ce, jerin shirye-shiryen shirye-shirye game da abubuwan kirkire-kirkire na birane na Afirka. Tare da masu samarwa Fernando Meirelles da Hank Levine (*City of God*), Selasi yana haɓaka *Exodus*, wani shiri na musamman game da ƙaura na duniya.

A cikin 2013 Selasi ta kasance mai juror a cikin gidan talabijin na gaskiya na Italiyanci *Masterpiece* akan Rai 3 tare da Andrea De Carlo. 

A cikin 2015, Selasi ta fito a matsayin Fitaccen Mawallafi, tana jagorantar taron karawa juna sani, a Jadawalin Marubutan Iceland na shekara-shekara a Reykjavik, Iceland. Har ila yau, ta kasance mai ba da gudummawa ga tarihin *New Daughters of Africa* (wanda Margaret Busby ta shirya, 2019).

## Ayyuka

### Littattafai

### Gajerun labarai

* "The Sex Lives of African Girls" (2011)
* "Driver" (2013)
* "Aliens of Extraordinary Ability" (2014)
* "Brunhilda in Love" (2016)

* "African Literature Doesn't Exist" (2013) 

## Manazarta