Quote by Taiye Selasi: “I am not African because I was born in Africa, but because Africa was born in me.”

Identity is not just about geography or legal nationality — it lives inside you. You can belong to a culture, a history, or a people through inheritance, love, and choice, not only through birth. Where you are from is also what lives inside you.

Selasi published this in her 2013 TED Talk 'Don't Ask Where I'm From, Ask Where I'm a Local,' a period of growing global conversation about identity, nationality, and what it means to belong in an age of migration and diaspora. Her concept of the Afropolitan challenged fixed notions of national identity.

British-American author and photographer of Nigerian-Ghanaian descent, known for her debut novel Ghana Must Go and her influential 2014 TED Talk on the concept of being 'multi-local.' Her work challenges fixed notions of nationality and belonging.