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Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go
Phiri, Aretha. 2019. Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go. In Emilia María Durán-Almarza, Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Carla Rodriguez González (Eds.), Debating the Afropolitan (1st ed.). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Debating-the-Afropolitan-1st-Edition/Duran-Almarza-Kabir-Rodriguez-Gonzalez/p/book/9780367085780#toc
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