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

— Taiye Selasi Ghana Must Go (2013)

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

Ghana Must Go (2013)

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

Ghana Must Go (2013)

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.

Ghana Must Go (2013)

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.

Ghana Must Go (2013)

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