I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

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

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

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.

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

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.