East African Scholars Journal of Education, Humanities and Literature

This paper seeks to address the Africans’ misconceptions about the American life as presented in Chiamamnda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. It examines Adichie’s depiction of negative social issues in America which were concealed form Africans by the American mass media, the influential Nigerian parents, and the incomplete report of the previous travelers and immigrants to America. Adichie attempts to convey an inclusive presentation of the American life through her diasporic characters and their struggle against the Americans’ racial prejudice, low level of education, lack of employment, and financial struggle. The paper illustrates how Adichie sheds light upon the importance of remodeling the untrue presentation of America to prevent the Africans’ agony and disappointment when immigrating to America. To achieve this, the paper examines the Nigerian immigrants experience with the Americans’ racial prejudice, low level of education, lack of employment, and financial struggle as distinctive aspects of the American life.