SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF AMERICANAH BY CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

SUMMARY
Ifemelu, a Nigerian woman living in America, gets her hair braided at an African salon. She interacts with the women there and remembers her past. Meanwhile Obinze, a rich man living in Nigeria, emails Ifemelu and remembers his own past. The chapters are also scattered with posts from Ifemelu’s blog about race in America.
Ifemelu grows up in Lagos, Nigeria. She is close with her Aunty Uju, who becomes the mistress of The General, a wealthy married man. Ifemelu meets Obinze at school and they fall in love. Obinze introduces Ifemelu to his mother, a professor. Aunty Uju gets pregnant and has The General’s baby, named Dike. The General dies and Uju flees with Dike to America.
Ifemelu and Obinze go to university together. They start having sex and Ifemelu has a pregnancy scare. There are many strikes and the university is shut down. Ifemelu considers going to America, and she gets a visa and a scholarship to a university in Philadelphia.
When Ifemelu arrives she stays in Brooklyn for the summer with Aunty Uju and Dike. Uju seems stressed out and unhappy. She gives Ifemelu a fake identity card to find work, and Ifemelu goes to Philadelphia for school. Ginika, her friend from Nigeria, helps introduce Ifemelu to American culture and its racial politics. Ifemelu can’t find a job, and she starts using an American accent. She makes friends with some African students.
Ifemelu’s money runs out, and she accepts a job helping a tennis coach “relax.” He touches her sexually and gives her $100. Ifemelu goes home and feels guilty and depressed. She breaks off contact with Obinze, and stops eating and sleeping. Ginika finds her a job babysitting for a wealthy woman named Kimberly.
Kimberly and Ifemelu become friends. Ifemelu visits Aunty Uju who has gotten married and moved to Massachusetts, and flirts with a young man named Blaine on the trip there. Ifemelu starts dating Kimberly’s cousin Curt, a rich, handsome white man. Curt takes Ifemelu on many trips and helps her get a good job and a green card.
Meanwhile Obinze is hurt by Ifemelu’s sudden silence. He graduates and moves to England. He stays with friends but can’t find a good job, and his visa expires. He rents an identity card and finds menial work. He makes friends with a boss and coworker, but then is turned in as an illegal immigrant. Obinze borrows money from Emenike, an old friend who has gotten rich in England, and pays for a green-card marriage with a girl named Cleotilde. On the day of his wedding, though, Obinze is arrested and sent back to Nigeria.
Ifemelu, feeling the pressure of her interracial relationship, cheats on Curt and he breaks up with her. She gets depressed again. Her parents visit. Ifemelu starts her race blog and it gets very popular. She becomes well-known and is asked to give talks. She meets Blaine again and they start dating. He is a professor at Yale and very principled. Ifemelu also meets his domineering sister Shan.
Ifemelu and Blaine start following Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy. They have a fight when Ifemelu skips a protest Blaine arranges. They get back together, but are mostly united by their shared passion for Obama. Ifemelu wins a fellowship to live at Princeton. After a while she grows restless and decides to quit her blog, break up with Blaine, and move back to Nigeria.
It is a week before she plans to return to Nigeria when Ifemelu goes to the hair salon. As she leaves the hair salon, Aunty Uju calls to tell her that Dike tried to kill himself. Ifemelu rushes to be with him.
Obinze has gotten rich selling real estate. He is married to the beautiful Kosi and has a daughter.
Ifemelu spends lots of time with Dike and then goes to Lagos. Her old friend Ranyinudo helps her readjust, teasing her about being an “Americanah.” Ifemelu goes to a club for Nigerians back from living abroad. She starts working for a women’s magazine but then quits and starts a new blog about life in Lagos. Dike visits her.
Ifemelu finally calls Obinze and they meet up. They start seeing each other daily and rekindle their romance. They spend blissful weeks together, but then break up again in the face of his marriage. Obinze tries to divorce Kosi, but she won’t accept it. After seven months Obinze shows up at Ifemelu’s door, saying he is leaving Kosi and wants to try again with Ifemelu. She invites him in.

CHARACTERS

Ifemelu – The novel’s main protagonist, an intelligent, stubborn, outspoken Nigerian woman who moves to America to attend university. She has difficulty adjusting there but eventually becomes a citizen, wins a fellowship at Princeton, and starts a popular blog about race. She has periods of deep depression at times and often feels like an outsider. She has three serious boyfriends: Obinze, Curt, and Blaine. She eventually moves back to Nigeria, reconnects with Obinze, and builds a life for herself there.

Obinze Maduewesi – The other protagonist, a calm, thoughtful, intelligent young Nigerian man. He is raised by his mother, a professor, and is very well-read and obsessed with America. He moves to England after graduating university and tries to become a citizen, but is ultimately deported. He then becomes rich selling real estate in Nigeria. He marries Kosi and has a child, but never falls out of love with Ifemelu, whom he dated as a teenager.

Aunty Uju – Ifemelu’s aunt, an intelligent, strong-willed doctor. In Nigeria she becomes the mistress of The General and lives off of his wealth, but then she has to flee to America, where she lives a life of stress and hardship. She is always the closest to Ifemelu of any of her relatives, even after she seems to change and harden in America.

ETC

THEMES

Race and Racism

Identity

Romantic Love

Separation vs. Connection

Cultural Criticism

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SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF EFURU BY FLORA NWAPA

Brief Summary
This novel titled “Efuru” revolved a female character called “Efuru” who is the heroine of the novel but she was betrayed severally by her lovers even when she had loved and practically adored them in all angles.
She was married firstly to Adizua who was poor to the extent that the had no money to pay for Efuru’s Dowry, but besides that Efuru ran away with him to his house to live with him even with a bride price paid on her behalf.
Efuru even when she stayed and lived with Adizua had encountered many undoings and misfortunes, while in his first marriage with Adizua, she lost her only daughter Ogorim and Adizua, her husband clopped with another wind and still she later got married to Gilbert another man yet she also suffered, severely in his hands and later left him.
More also, despite all these she remained good to people around and also she was praised and remembered for her good deeds.


SETTING
The novel was a colonial novel. The period colonization was still at its peak due to the things mentioned by the writer like, men padding or travelling with boats and also how Eneberi’s name was baptized into Gilbert when the white men came because they considered native names as paganism
It also have a cultural and social back ground because the actions of the novel revolves around cultural happenings at that time.

THEMES
Theme of Barrenness or infertility
THEME OF LOVE

CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION

Efuru =She is the heroine of the novel who the story revolves around. She a very beautiful woman with a loving heart but it seems everything do not work out smoothly.

Adizua – he is Efuru’s first husband and the an she clopped with out of love even when he has not paid her bride price, he was the same person who clopped to Ndomi with another woman who left her husband, abandoning Efuru and his only child Ogirim

Eneberi Uberife Gilbert- He is Efuru’s second husband who also treated her bably and accused her of adultery after everything Efuru has passed through with him.

Ajamupu– she is Efuru’s highest confident and a kind of savior, she is always there for Efuru at any point, she was the mother Efuru has and every thing Efuru has and she was also who helped Efuru to deliver and nurse he baby Ogirim

Nwashike Ogene: He was Efuru’s father a story warior, farmer and fisher he was another conpident Efuru has he helps Efuru his daughter to any length just to make sure that she is well. He was the person that even met the Dibia that performed the ritual that even made Efuru to take in while she was still Adizua her first husband and also many other helps.
More also the writer has all other minor characters that helped in the development of the story like Ogea, Nwosu, Ossai, Amede, Omarima Nkoyeni e. t c

LANGUAGE / DICTION
The diction of the writer contains simple English and also Igbo Language and some translations to them. The writer made use of simple English that could be understood by everyone them the Igbo Language there is referred to as code- mixing that is bringing on a foreign Language into another while writing.

POINT OF VIEW
The writer used a third person point of view. She employed this point of view. She employed this point of view just to tender her story or place he story the way it would be suitable for every reader.

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SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF SECOND CLASS CITIZEN BY BUCHI EMECHETA

Summary
The novelist tells the story of a young girl Ada Ofili who was born when the family needed a male child. Ada dreams of going to school like other children, she was not allowed to school because she is not a boy, whenever Adah takes her brother to school, she wish to be like him, one day she sneaked to the Methodist school where her neighbour teaches, the neighbour called police to intervene in Adah’s problem, the mother was arrested for not allowing her go to school, Adah was allowed to start school but few months later the father felt ill and died, Adah’s mother was disinherited by the fathers brother and Adah was sent to live with one of her mother’s brothers. Only to receive a high bride price Adah was allowed to stay in school. Adah steals money to sit for her exam and she passed, she also gained scholarship and attends the Methodist Girls’ school and completes the four years course. Wanting to continue her education at the university, Adah knows that she will not be allowed to live on her own. She marries a student, Francis Obi, who is too poor to pay the bride price, with the hope of being able to attend school and study at her own pace. She gives birth to a daughter and begins working for the American Consulate Library.

POINT OF VIEW
This is said with a 3rd person point of view, with an omniscient narrative

STYLE
Her writing style is so interesting. The way, she creates imagery through the description of the important aspects of scenes to portray the protagonist emotions.

CHARACTER

Francis Obi: He is Adah’s husband. He is a replica of a lazy Igbo man who forgot his duties as the head of the family was to provide. He was only good at making his wife pregnant. Anything he fail his exams, he put the balm on the wife and refuses to accept correction. He is also foolish, when he burnt the marriage certificate Adah’s international passport and children’s birth certificate.

Adah: Francis wife, she is known to be ambitious. she uses the rule of being harmless as a love but clever as a serpent in disclosing her ambitions’. This is seen where she hid the two shillings meant for buying steak to pay for her examinations. She is also courageous and determine to make at when she accepts to take care of her children alone.

TRUDY: Was the lazy woman who supposed to take care of Adah”s children but was so uncaring that Vicky, Adah 1st son developed meningities.

SETTING
Ibuza in the place Adah and her parent were form. It is a society where values were placed on the male gender.
Lagos was where she was born and brought, where everyone mended his/her business because the law ruled supreme.
Methodist school and Ladi lak are the school she went to for her basic education Methodist Girl’s school in the name of the college Adah went to.
American consulate library at Campbell Street in Lagos was where she worked
England was the place she, her husband and two children traveled to. It is a post colonial settings with social and historical background.

THEMES

THE THEME OF FEMINISM
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
DISUNITY AMONG AFRICANS

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