Adichie’s  Americanah is an insight into African immigration to the West, primarily looking at the Nigerian experience in the USA but also touching on an alternative experience in England. The perspective was interesting to become immersed in, Adichie commenting on issues of racism, though never an explicit racism and rather the unconscious racism of the everyday and an American ignorance, such as speaking to foreign people slowly as if they are a lesser individual than oneself to highlight an example. It is also structured to incorporate the protagonist Ifemelu’s blog posts, allowing Adichie to more easily insert her political voice. For the most part Americanah was a good read, whereas in the final third of the book I begun to find the flaws of the protagonist tiresome and infuriating, retracting from the main purposes of the novel and creating a dislikability that I do not believe was intentional. The frequency of relationships made me associate the latter half of the novel with Defoe’s Roxana, and whilst Adiche did a much better job than Defoe at developing relationships and giving them a purpose, I despised Roxana and the association I made to it detracted from my experience with Americanah. I feel in this aspect of the novel, there was too much, whereas it is also the only aspect in which I can highlight a significant flaw. Otherwise, Americanah was a fascinating read, Adichie’s writing is easy to pick up, and perhaps in my dislike of one aspect I have made it sound worse than is the case.