NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the award-winning author of We Should All
Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun--the story of two Nigerians
making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of
race, belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and
the search for identity and a home.
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled
Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America,
where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what
it means to be black for the first time.
Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11
America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented
life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic
Nigeria, and reignite their passion--for each other and for their
homeland.