View source for In This Way Comes Morning: New Writing of the West African Diaspora: Okey Ndibe, Chinelo Okparanta, and Taiye Selasi (2014)

This event happened on November 24th 2014 at [[Folger Theatre]] . 

The past few years have been a particularly fertile period for American publishing from authors of Nigerian and West African origin. [[PEN/Faulkner]] brings '''Okey Ndibe''', '''Chinelo Okparanta''', and '''Taiye Selasi''' together to read from their work and discuss the breadth of writing about, and within, this community.

'''Okey Ndibe''' is a novelist, political columnist, and founding editor of the magazine ''African Commentary''. His novels include ''Arrows of Rain'' and ''Foreign Gods, Inc.'', and he teaches fiction and African literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

'''Chinelo Okparanta''' is the author of the story collection ''Happiness, Like Water''. Born in Port-Harcourt, Nigeria, she is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers University, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her stories have appeared in ''Granta'', ''Tin House'', ''The Kenyon Review'', and elsewhere.

'''Taiye Selasi''' is the author of the novel ''Ghana Must Go''. Born in London and raised in Massachusetts, she holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University. She lives in Rome, Italy.