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What makes Americanah so fascinating, is not the story itself, but the thought-provoking conceptions about racism as presented from differing perspectives.
Ifemelu is a Nigerian woman who migrates to America to pursue an Ivy League education. While there, she begins a blogging about her experiences as a black African in America. She remains in America for 15 years, leaving behind, but still corresponding with Obinze, the lover she left behind in Nigeria. Eventually she returns to Africa, and Obin ...more
Ifemelu is a Nigerian woman who migrates to America to pursue an Ivy League education. While there, she begins a blogging about her experiences as a black African in America. She remains in America for 15 years, leaving behind, but still corresponding with Obinze, the lover she left behind in Nigeria. Eventually she returns to Africa, and Obin ...more
4.2 – The writing pulls you in from the first line . In a known storytelling structure but in a new ground for me, the book goes boldly into issues few dare to touch like race and racism but also love and immigration and raising kids. It had accurate and eye opening moments and it also ( very few actually )had points where the plot felts over emphasizing but the beauty of it is that it was all laced in a good story and not in a lecture or “politicly correct” balance.
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The narration of this audiobook was truly exceptional- it helped me fall in to the story, to remember the back stories of the myriad of global characters.
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