Setting

The main setting of the excerpt from the novel Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the United States of America. The country is mainly described through Ifemelu’s eyes, as she uses her experience as a Nigerian immigrant to better understand the issue of race in the US. 

Ifemelu paints the picture of a deeply prejudiced and racist America: “racism is about the power of a group and in America it’s white folks who have that power”. Ifemelu carefully differentiates between being prejudiced – wh...