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One can leave Nigeria but it will never leave anyone.
A story of a lot more than just immigration. It's also about racism, cultural intermixing into something very different than either of the starter ingredients, racism (of course, this happens in US, after all, the core racist country), a view on Africa and the drastic circumstances the locals keep finding themselves in due to the hope mother of all troubles (corruption, military coups, economy in shambles, imperial appetites of the so called ' ...more
A story of a lot more than just immigration. It's also about racism, cultural intermixing into something very different than either of the starter ingredients, racism (of course, this happens in US, after all, the core racist country), a view on Africa and the drastic circumstances the locals keep finding themselves in due to the hope mother of all troubles (corruption, military coups, economy in shambles, imperial appetites of the so called ' ...more
El problema de cuando escuchás tantas maravillas acerca de un libro es que te pone las expectativas muy altas y la lectura se ve sujeta a ellas. Esto me pasó con Americanah. Por alguna razón pensé que se trataba de otra cosa, y ver que, end definitiva, es una historia de amor (y una historia de amor que no logró conmoverme), me desilusionó un poco. Me encantaron, sin embargo, todas las apreciaciones que hace ella sobre las diferencias culturales, en una voz muy aguda, despierta, crítica. Las ent
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