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UT Austin Symposium for African Writers 2014: Taiye Selasi, Sofia Samatar, Maaza Mengiste, Laila Lalami, & Nnedi Okorafor:

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By Toyin Falola, Jo-Ellyn Decker, Dominique Daniel, Margaret Graves
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In the last few years, some of the most powerful, popular, and innovative African writing has come from writers living in the United States. Yet to describe writers like Taiye Selasi, Maaza Mengiste, Sofia Samatar, Nnedi Okorafor, or Laila Lalami as either “American” or “African” writers would be to miss what is most vital about their work, which is both and neither, and gloriously so.
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