Ifemelu gains success in the United States, where she becomes known for her blog about race in America, entitled 'Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black'. Years later, Obinze returns to Nigeria and becomes a wealthy man as a property developer in the newly democratic country. He goes to London, eventually becoming an undocumented immigrant after his visa expires. Ifemelu moves to the United States to study, where she struggles for the first time with racism and the many varieties of racial distinctions: for the first time, Ifemelu discovers what it means to be a 'Black Person'. Nigeria at the time is under military dictatorship, and people are seeking to leave the country. Summary Īmericanah is about Ifemelu and Obinze who, as teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, fall in love. A television miniseries, starring and produced by Lupita Nyong'o, was in development for HBO Max, but then was later dropped. It was Adichie's third novel, published on May 14, 2013, by Alfred A.

The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S.

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