Americanah

Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is Adichie's third novel and fourth book, and was published on 14 May 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. The novel recounts the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who emigrates to the United States to attend a university. Ifemelu's male schoolmate did not learn about the trans-Atlantic slave trade in school, and does not understand racism in the United States or social class in the United Kingdom. Americanah won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2013 and was a commercial success upon publication. According to a 2015 report by France 24, the novel has sold more than 500,000 copies in the US and has been translated into 25 languages.

==Background== In her 2009 TED talk entitled "The Danger of a Single Story", the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie argued for the understanding of the multiplicity of African experiences. After the publication of her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, Vogue classified Adichie as the first in a series of young African authors who write about their countries with Western audiences in mind. Adichie started writing fiction at Johns Hopkins University and later got a master's in African studies at Yale University.