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Americanah is a 2013 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her third novel and fourth book, it was published on 14 May 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. The novel recounts the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who emigrates to the United States to attend a university. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2013.

The novel tells the story of a young Nigerian woman and her male schoolmate, who did not know about the trans-Atlantic slave trade in school and had no understanding of racism in the United States or social class in the United Kingdom. A commercial success upon publication, a 2015 report by France 24 revealed that Americanah has sold more than 500,000 copies in the US and has been translated into 25 languages.