She knew that the people who read her blog were not the same people who attended her diversity workshops. During her talks, she said: “America has made great progress for which we should be very proud.” In her blog she wrote: Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reduci...
Americanah follows the lives of two Nigerians: Ifemelu, who moves to America to study and starts a very successful blog about race in America (seriously, from what Adichie writes you'd think that getting blog views is easy); and Obinze, who moves to the UK to get work and is considerably less succes...
Goodreads summary: From the award-winning author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun,’ a powerful story of love, race and identity.As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu depar...
Americanah is eye-opening and goes into depth about problems that we as a society are often afraid to address. It tells the story of a Nigerian woman, named Ifemelu, who travels across the Atlantic in search of the American dream, leaving behind all of her culture and her beloved sweetheart, Obinze....
Ifemula leaves Nigeria to come to America to complete her education. Obinze, while wanting to go to America, goes to England. The lives they live there are different than what they anticipated. They live immigrant lives which includes lying to get jobs, pretending to be others, taking the lowest job...
Although it drags a bit in the latter half, spending a little too much time on Blaine and the blog, this is overall a book that blends a rootable love story with a look at race and identity. And of course, love has a lot to do with identity - how we learn it, how we choose our partners, how we love ...
Although it drags a bit in the latter half, spending a little too much time on Blaine and the blog, this is overall a book that blends a rootable love story with a look at race and identity. And of course, love has a lot to do with identity - how we learn it, how we choose our partners, how we love ...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah is so full of ideas it's hard to know where to start. The story touches on race, identity, immigration, culture, language, money, class, prejudice, family, disappointment, and homecoming. Our two protagonists, Ifemelu and Obinze, are our eyes in Lagos, London, a...
In Americanah, the two main characters are modern-day Nigerians: Ifemelu and her (one true) love, Obinze. Middle-class and educated, they have decided to migrate abroad, not for reasons of political conflict or poverty, but for the lack of foresight of their country's progressiveness, "the oppressiv...
Oh, this was so good and I have to thank Rebecka for tipping this from the TBR to the read pile. No hemming and hawing about how to rate Americanah, I give it an easy-peasy 5 stars.Americanah presents an interesting perspective on race and feminism through the story of Ifemelu, a Nigerian woman wh...
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