Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah has been named the BBC Top Book of 2013.

Nigerian writer - Chimamanda Adichie has been deemed “supremely smart and funny” in the way she expressed herself in her novel 'Americanah'  hence the recognition as BBC Top Book of 2013

Americanah tells the story of Ifemelu, who leaves her boyfriend behind in Nigeria to study in the US. After her initial disorienting days as an immigrant and a string of humiliating jobs, she finds an outlet in a satiric blog. “Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black,” she writes. She becomes a Princeton fellow and dates a Yale professor. After 13 years her heart brings her back to Lagos, where she is not ‘black’. She’s Igbo. And Americanah.

Americanah is  Chimamanda third novel, after Purple Hibiscus and Half of A Yellow Sun.