![]() ![]() Her short fiction has been published in literary journals including Granta, and won the International PEN/David Wong award in 2003. She is from Abba, in Anambra State, but grew up in the university town of Nsukka, where she attended primary and secondary schools. ![]() The journey from Africa to America, her struggles, cross-cultural journey and identity formation of the migrant, Ifemelu is explored in this paper.Ĭhimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in 1977 in Nigeria. Further, the precariousness of balancing the eastern and western culture contributes to her hybridity. The process of formulating a new cultural identity leads to a multi-cultural lifestyle. The protagonist of the novel is embedded in a postcolonial frame. This paper will explore how migration has reshaped the life of the central character, Ifemelu. Adichie’s novel Americanah is one such novel. Hybridity expands about the balance between the nature and the western culture. ![]() ![]() The term ‘Hybridity’ is often associated with postcolonialism and it is one of the most recurrent topics of the genre. Twenty first Century writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie exhibits the influence of Postcolonial condition through her novels. ![]()
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