On the immigration of Nigerians into the U.S. Adichie joins NPR's Scott Simon to talk about race in America, the politics of hair and the loss of Chinua Achebe. Ĭhimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a MacArthur fellow, and her previous novels have won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction (now the Women's Prize for Fiction). But she doesn't want to see the man she has loved for so long. Obinze and Ifemelu find each other - over the Internet, at first. He winds up living in London, under assumed names, and nearly gets married there before he's sent back to Nigeria. Obinze, on the other hand, can't get into to America in the days following Sept.

Ifemelu goes to America to study, and she prospers there, trying out different jobs and relationships while writing a blog about her sudden new awareness of race. Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love as students in Nigeria, when the country is under military rule and those with the means to leave the country do so. But the young lovers in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's latest novel, Americanah, must overcome even more challenges than usual: military rule, immigration restrictions and, during their years apart, other relationships. School romances face a lot of obstacles: the big decision at graduation, the competing demands of two burgeoning careers, perhaps a period spent in a long-distance relationship. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Americanah Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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