Born in the United States, he is named after Uju's father, and given her surname.

Dike – The son of Aunty Uju and the General.

After the General dies, Uju moves to America, where she struggles to continue the medical training she began in Nigeria. She starts a relationship with the General, and gives birth to a son, Dike.

Aunty Uju – Ifemelu's father’s cousin.

He unexpectedly loses his job at a federal agency and is unable to support his family. Ifemelu's father is powerless to stop her.

Ifemelu's Mother and Father – Ifemelu's mother is a devout evangelical Christian who fasts dangerously in order to drive the devil out of her family's life.

She struggles with outdated Nigerian attitudes towards women.

Obinze's Mother – Professor at Nsukka University and a widow.

His mother, a professor, taught him how to cook and fostered his love of books.

She is born in Lagos, Nigeria, and studies in America. When Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, the two consider reviving a relationship in light of their diverging experiences and identities during their many years apart. 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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