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Jan 2021
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Americanah Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adi...

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author 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 immigrated to the United States to attend university.</span></p>

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