"Americanah" is a fiction written by the popular Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Ifemelu is a young, educated Nigerian woman who satisfies her yearning to travel, abandons her childhood sweetheart Obinze and goes to America without a Green Card to attend college. The story skips between her point of view and Obinze's, yet we are mostly with Ifemelu as she explores her new life in the States. In Nigeria, everybody is dark. There is no separation over race. What she encounters in the US – and after that archives in her blog – is the way racism makes due in the illuminated 21st century. She depicts herself as "the non-American-black", commenting about Black Americans.
While Americanah is a story of individual characters, it is additionally …show more content…
When they are young Ifemelu is savvy and frank, and Obinze is quiet and keen. In America, Ifemelu must battle with her way of life as an African-American, or somebody seen as an outcast. To begin with she manages this by tackling an American inflection and relaxing her hair—apparently offering into another way of life as an American. She even needs to use a fake personality to search for work, as she only has a student visa. Later Ifemelu picks up more confidence and comes to grasp her Nigerianness, even as she adjusts all the more effortlessly to American culture and discovers accomplishment there. She surrenders her American accent and gives her hair a chance to become natural, while in the meantime dating a rich white man and later winning a fellowship to Princeton. Obinze has a more troublesome ordeal adjusting to England where he does the most minimal humble work watches Nigerian friends flaunt in absurdly upscale British ways.. His visa terminates and he is compelled to use someone else’s identity to look for some kind of employment, and to get tied up with a green-card marriage. All over there is a fear of outsiders, and Obinze feels imperceptible and useless. He is at long last caught and taken back to Nigeria and after that begins constructing another personality for himself, having been compelled to surrender his old long for …show more content…
"Why don’t you have relaxer?" asks Aisha, to which she answers, "I like my hair the way God made it", implying that she declines to fix her hair by using chemicals and smoothing irons. The hair salon turns into the setting for the majority of Ifemelu's flashbacks. It is a decent embodiment of the sorts of situations Adichie investigates—these are women from different African nations who are currently battling in America, where they find that they are basically peasants. America is not the heaven they may have envisioned. It's a natural circumstance for most third worlders, this thought that the great life must be found outside the outskirts of their degenerate nation: ideally in the West, where years of imperialism have empowered its subjects to appreciate freedom, drinkable faucet water, and share of an apparently boundless abundance of groceries in markets and general
While Americanah is a story of individual characters, it is additionally …show more content…
When they are young Ifemelu is savvy and frank, and Obinze is quiet and keen. In America, Ifemelu must battle with her way of life as an African-American, or somebody seen as an outcast. To begin with she manages this by tackling an American inflection and relaxing her hair—apparently offering into another way of life as an American. She even needs to use a fake personality to search for work, as she only has a student visa. Later Ifemelu picks up more confidence and comes to grasp her Nigerianness, even as she adjusts all the more effortlessly to American culture and discovers accomplishment there. She surrenders her American accent and gives her hair a chance to become natural, while in the meantime dating a rich white man and later winning a fellowship to Princeton. Obinze has a more troublesome ordeal adjusting to England where he does the most minimal humble work watches Nigerian friends flaunt in absurdly upscale British ways.. His visa terminates and he is compelled to use someone else’s identity to look for some kind of employment, and to get tied up with a green-card marriage. All over there is a fear of outsiders, and Obinze feels imperceptible and useless. He is at long last caught and taken back to Nigeria and after that begins constructing another personality for himself, having been compelled to surrender his old long for …show more content…
"Why don’t you have relaxer?" asks Aisha, to which she answers, "I like my hair the way God made it", implying that she declines to fix her hair by using chemicals and smoothing irons. The hair salon turns into the setting for the majority of Ifemelu's flashbacks. It is a decent embodiment of the sorts of situations Adichie investigates—these are women from different African nations who are currently battling in America, where they find that they are basically peasants. America is not the heaven they may have envisioned. It's a natural circumstance for most third worlders, this thought that the great life must be found outside the outskirts of their degenerate nation: ideally in the West, where years of imperialism have empowered its subjects to appreciate freedom, drinkable faucet water, and share of an apparently boundless abundance of groceries in markets and general