Annasi And The Golden Pot by Taiye Selasi

*Author, Anansi and the Golden pot*

Taiye Selasi exudes and enjoys a great deal of independence. This is due in part to the fact that she is comfortable juggling many jobs, languages, locations, and people, as well as the fact that she straddles paradoxes without difficulty. Her intriguing and contentious essay about “Afropolitans,” a new generation of emigrants with ties to the African continent, marked her literary debut in 2005. Discussions on this piece were heated. In addition to becoming a theory, an identity, and a brand, the phrase “Afropolitan” has also become widely used.

Eight years later, Selasi published Ghana Must Go, but her article had already presciently cut through many of the harmful identity and microaggression discussions that would soon become public. With her theories on multi-locality, Selasi had already rendered the infuriating inquiry “where are you from?” irrelevant. She had also done away with restrictions that demanded intellectuals, feminists, and authors should somehow withdraw from what some people consider as frivolities with her brazen embracing of beauty and fashion.