Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Nigerian woman blogs about race in America, then goes home.
Adichie follows Ifemelu from Lagos to American universities and back to Nigeria, using a blog-within-the-novel to dissect how race, hair and belonging are experienced differently by African immigrants than by Black Americans. A love story doubles as social commentary on migration and return. It reached a wide readership after her earlier novel 'Half of a Yellow Sun' and helped bring new African fiction to Western audiences.
Its legacy. Widely taught and translated, it confirmed Adichie's standing as one of the most read African novelists writing today.
- Author
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- First published
- 2013
- Genre
- Novel
- Theme
- Contemporary Voices, Memoir and Testimony
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