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She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.

— Taiye Selasi Ghana Must Go (2013)

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Death must take place in the heart to be believed in. After love dies man believes in his death.

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Your baby is crying," says the driver to Taiwo, the Ghanaian way of saying your cell phone is ringing.

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There was the one basic storyline, which everyone knew, with the few custom endings to choose now and again. Basic: humming grandmas and polycentric dancing and drinks made from tree sap and patriarchy.

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Loss is a notion. No more than a thought. Which one forms or one doesn’t. With words. Such that one cannot lose, nor ever say he has lost, what he does not permit to exist in his mind.

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