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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

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Biography

Nationality: Ghanaian

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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