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24 March 2021
Yaa Gyasi Makes the 2021 Women's Prize Longlist
Ghanaian-American writer, Yaa Gyasi, is the only African-born author named in the Women's Prize 2021 longlist for her sophomore novel 'Transcendent Kingdom'.
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Literature
20 December 2016
The Okayafrica 2016 Year-End Book List
We look back at the biggest, baddest books of 2016 by African and Diasporan writers.
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18 August 2016
‘Homegoing’ Author Yaa Gyasi Chats with Trevor Noah on the Thread that Unites Africans & African Americans
“I really wanted this to be a story about the diaspora as a family.”
Literature
17 June 2016
Yaa Gyasi's New Novel ‘Homegoing’ Traces Three Centuries of a Ghanaian Family
Yaa Gyasi’s first book is an emotional look at eight generations through some of the most harrowing times in African history.
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