Ghana Must Go

Taiye Selasi's Novel Ghana Must Go

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 25, 2013

Taiye Selasi discusses her novel Ghana Must Go, a portrait of a modern family and an exploration of the importance of where we come from to who we are. It’s a sweeping narrative that takes us from Accra to Lagos to London to New York. When a renowned surgeon and failed husband dies in Accra, the scattered family he abandoned years before comes together again.

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