CHIMAMANDA. NGOZI ADICHIE

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.

Americanah

Sarah Christine Gill

Nkwachi Nwamaghinna

"One of the things I've learned is that everybody in this country has the mentality of scarcity. We imagine that even the things that are not scarce are scarce. And it breeds a kind of desperation in everybody. Even the wealthy."

Nkechi A

But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her.

Nigeria’s version of the transatlantic accent. I have something similar. Nigerian, with some American pronunciations, and a hint of some other accents I do not know. I grew up on foreign TV

She spoke with the unplaceable foreign accent, British and American and something else all at once, of the wealthy Nigerian who did not want the world to forget how worldly she was, how her British Airways executive card was choking with miles.

she realized that Cristina Tomas was speaking like that because of her, her foreign accent, and she felt for a moment like a small child, lazy-limbed and drooling.

 "I bet you do," Cristina Tomas said. "I just don't know how well'

Ifemelu shrank. In that strained, still second when her eyes met Cristina Tomas's before she took the forms, she shrank. 

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