In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. "I like to say that this is a novel about love, about race, and about hair. On how Ifemelu's hair is important in the novel
For my generation it's the U.S., and I think this is probably the case for much of the world, because America just has this enormous cultural power." "I think the immigration story that we are very familiar with, when it concerns Africa, is the story of, you know, the person who's fleeing war or poverty, and I wanted to write about a different kind of immigration, which is the kind that I'm familiar with, which is of middle-class people who are not fleeing burned villages, and who you know had ostensibly privileged lives, but who are seeking what I like to think of as choice - who want more, who think that somehow over there is more exciting, is better. 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.
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