![]() ![]() Then, after constant flashbacks of both her life and Obinze’s life since Ifemelu left Lagos, we learn about what has happened in their lives for the past 15 years, both good and (very) bad. She leaves her boyfriend, Blaine (A Black American), closes her very successful blog, and comes back to her home country.Īt the same time, we also learn about the present life of Obinze, Ifemelu’s boyfriend before she travelled to America. ![]() The book starts with her decision to come back to Nigeria, to Lagos, (where Ifemelu was born) after her time in America. That is the name that the female protagonist of the book, Ifemelu, receives after having lived fifteen years in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Fifteen years later, when they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland – they face the hardest decision of their lives. Obinze plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. In America Ifemelu has to grapple with what it means to be black, despite her academic success. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. ![]()
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