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* TheKidsAreAmerican: Auntie Uju's son Dike was born in Nigeria, but grew up in the US, so he ends up with a native American accent.
* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Zig-zagged: There are actually multiple characters that "escape" Nigeria to end up successful in the UK or the US, and only some of them and up happy with that.
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* TheKidsAreAmerican: Auntie Uju's son Dike was born in Nigeria, but grew up in the US, so he ends up with a native American accent.
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* FaceOfTheBand: Blaine's peer group heavily revolves around his sister Shan, and everyone else tends to agree with her in every aspect.
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''Americanah'' is a novel by Nigerian-American author {creator/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie}, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze.
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''Americanah'' is a novel by Nigerian-American author {creator/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie}, Creator/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze.
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''Americanah'' is a novel by Nigerian-American author by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, {creator/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie}, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze.
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The German translation decided to literally translate the name of the TV show "friends" as "Freunde". Of course, the TV show is known with its English name in the German-speaking world.
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''Americanah'' is a novel by Nigerian-American author by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze.
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!! The work contains examples of the following tropes:
* AccentSlipUp: Ifemelu trains a very convincing American accent, but occasionally slips into her native Nigerian accent in excitement.
* BlackLikeMe: Deconstructed - Ifemelu is of dark skin colour, but tries to appear as an African American instead of an immigrant in the beginning. She stops quickly when she realizes that native Americans of dark skin colour are not treated any better than her.
* BriefAccentImitation: Blaine mocks the French African accent of Ifemelu's professor.
* BrokenPedestal: After their first big fight, Ifemelu stops holding her boyfriend Blaine on such a high regard than she did before because he ignored her for days.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Nigel from Obinze's workplace in London asks Obinze for help
* FaceOfTheBand: Blaine's peer group heavily revolves around his sister Shan, and everyone else tends to agree with her in every aspect.
* FlashbackBPlot: Big chunks of the book are just one big flashback to Ifemelu and Obinze's upbringing, coming-of-age and early adulthood.
* FromNewYorkToNowhere: Ifemelu experiences this when she decides to move from her birthtown Lagos to Nsukka - Lagos is populated by about 20 million people, Nsukka by about 40,000.
* GrassIsGreener: Deconstructed. Obinze desperately wants to escape Nigeria, fails and ends up happy and pretty wealthy in his home country. Ifemelu doesn't want to leave as much, but succeeds in getting to the US - only to end up unhappy there.
* HappyEndingMassage: Played for drama. In desperate need of money, Ifemelu gives one to a tennis coach she applied to for a job, sparking a heavy depression and her eventual disconnect to Obinze.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Ifemelu and Dike foster a strong one, despite both being about 15 years apart.
* JackieRobinsonStory: One part of the book revolves around Barack Obama's run for presidency in 2008 and the hopes of Ifemelu and Blaine's friend circle upon it.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Applies to both protagonists Ifemelu and Obinze. The former lived through heavy depressions when she first came to the US and when she broke up with Curt, while the latter crossed the DespairEventHorizon when he was deported from the UK.
* NeverASelfmadeWoman: Auntie Uju relies completely on the General's allowances, and after her migration to the US she looks for a new man to hold her out.
* NoAntagonist: While there are a few gray characters, there are no true antagonists to the main characters.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Subverted. Ifemelu's friend Ginika highlights that while Ifemelu is beautiful, her strong character might oppose men - turns out, Obinze likes this trait in particular.
* PassedOverPromotion: Before starting her blog, Ifemelu worked in a company where she was refused promotion - in her eye, due to her skin colour. One blog post of her deals with how most Americans will accept Black people as housemaids or drivers, but never as a boss.
* PlotIncitingInfidelity: Inversed: It's actually Ifemelu herself who cheats, what drives the plot forward.
* RomanticFakeRealTurn: Played for drama. Obinze settles for a fake marriage with the Portuguese citizen Cleotilde, but it's heavily implied that they have strong mutual feelings for each other. Obinze's deportation ends the promiseful romance.
* SoNearYetSoFar: Obinze is arrested by an immigration officer just before he would have married Cleotilde, granting him permanent residentship.
* TheKidsAreAmerican: Auntie Uju's son Dike was born in Nigeria, but grew up in the US, so he ends up with a native American accent.
* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Zig-zagged: There are actually multiple characters that "escape" Nigeria to end up successful in the UK or the US, and only some of them and up happy with that.
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!! The work contains examples of the following tropes:
* AccentSlipUp: Ifemelu trains a very convincing American accent, but occasionally slips into her native Nigerian accent in excitement.
* BlackLikeMe: Deconstructed - Ifemelu is of dark skin colour, but tries to appear as an African American instead of an immigrant in the beginning. She stops quickly when she realizes that native Americans of dark skin colour are not treated any better than her.
* BriefAccentImitation: Blaine mocks the French African accent of Ifemelu's professor.
* BrokenPedestal: After their first big fight, Ifemelu stops holding her boyfriend Blaine on such a high regard than she did before because he ignored her for days.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Nigel from Obinze's workplace in London asks Obinze for help
* FaceOfTheBand: Blaine's peer group heavily revolves around his sister Shan, and everyone else tends to agree with her in every aspect.
* FlashbackBPlot: Big chunks of the book are just one big flashback to Ifemelu and Obinze's upbringing, coming-of-age and early adulthood.
* FromNewYorkToNowhere: Ifemelu experiences this when she decides to move from her birthtown Lagos to Nsukka - Lagos is populated by about 20 million people, Nsukka by about 40,000.
* GrassIsGreener: Deconstructed. Obinze desperately wants to escape Nigeria, fails and ends up happy and pretty wealthy in his home country. Ifemelu doesn't want to leave as much, but succeeds in getting to the US - only to end up unhappy there.
* HappyEndingMassage: Played for drama. In desperate need of money, Ifemelu gives one to a tennis coach she applied to for a job, sparking a heavy depression and her eventual disconnect to Obinze.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Ifemelu and Dike foster a strong one, despite both being about 15 years apart.
* JackieRobinsonStory: One part of the book revolves around Barack Obama's run for presidency in 2008 and the hopes of Ifemelu and Blaine's friend circle upon it.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Applies to both protagonists Ifemelu and Obinze. The former lived through heavy depressions when she first came to the US and when she broke up with Curt, while the latter crossed the DespairEventHorizon when he was deported from the UK.
* NeverASelfmadeWoman: Auntie Uju relies completely on the General's allowances, and after her migration to the US she looks for a new man to hold her out.
* NoAntagonist: While there are a few gray characters, there are no true antagonists to the main characters.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Subverted. Ifemelu's friend Ginika highlights that while Ifemelu is beautiful, her strong character might oppose men - turns out, Obinze likes this trait in particular.
* PassedOverPromotion: Before starting her blog, Ifemelu worked in a company where she was refused promotion - in her eye, due to her skin colour. One blog post of her deals with how most Americans will accept Black people as housemaids or drivers, but never as a boss.
* PlotIncitingInfidelity: Inversed: It's actually Ifemelu herself who cheats, what drives the plot forward.
* RomanticFakeRealTurn: Played for drama. Obinze settles for a fake marriage with the Portuguese citizen Cleotilde, but it's heavily implied that they have strong mutual feelings for each other. Obinze's deportation ends the promiseful romance.
* SoNearYetSoFar: Obinze is arrested by an immigration officer just before he would have married Cleotilde, granting him permanent residentship.
* TheKidsAreAmerican: Auntie Uju's son Dike was born in Nigeria, but grew up in the US, so he ends up with a native American accent.
* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Zig-zagged: There are actually multiple characters that "escape" Nigeria to end up successful in the UK or the US, and only some of them and up happy with that.
