This is the Outline I will be referring to when I start talking about themes and major turning points in the story. In my next post, I will give a character analysis of the leading cast, Ifemulu and Obinze.

Part 1

Chapter 1: Ifemulu

• Travelling to the Blackside of Trenton (Train ride)
• About Raceteenth
• Blaine, Fatness, and Homesickness
• Mariama African Hair Braiding Salon
• Nollywood Nostalgia
• Immigrant Women and Igbo Men

Chapter 2: Obinze

• Ceiling
• Stifling, Sweet Life,
• The Chief of Wealth
• Chief’s Party
• If you give a man a single woman…
• Fela Feelings

Part 2: Ifemulu

Chapter 3

• Imagined Boyfriends
• The Charismatic Christian
• Mummy Boss
• Sunday Mornings
• The Truth of a Repressed Christian
• Aunty Uju

Chapter 4

• It’s not the gods’ fault
• If this is love…
• Why slap a widow?
• The Trouble Babe
• Love at first Sight
• Chapter 5
• The Reluctant Americanah
• Passport Haze
• The difference of the Indifferent
• Obinze’s Mother

Chapter 6

• No is the final answer
• The Ignomity of the Truth
• Dracula
• Am I your co-equal?
• Dike
• The end of the General

Chapter 7

• JAMB Forms
• Trouble in Paradise (Strikes and Odein)
• For the First Time
• The Talk

Chapter 8

• The Never Ending Strike
• The New Americanah
• Our Plan

Chapter 9: Back to the Present

• Small girls and smaller kids
• First American Heat wave
• Detachment
• Little Dike
• Subdued

Chapter 10: The summer of waiting

Chapter 11

• Bartholomew
• Manhattan
• The End of the summer of waiting

Chapter 12

• Ginikia the Golden Girl
• The shapelessness of post-modernity
• That’s America for you!

Chapter 13

• Uh…Ngozi, not Ifemulu
• Invisible Boldness

Chapter 14

• Cristina Tomas
• The Perfect American College Student
• Types of African
• The devil is a liar

Chapter 15

• Help me relax
• The devil’s advocate
• Kimberley, Laura, and Don
• The Bacon eating dog
• The Tennis Coach
• The Great Depression
• The light at the end of the tunnel