This course examines the 2013 novel Americanah by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the context of Nigerian history and transnational feminism. Adichie’s well-known TED Talk “The Danger of a Single Story” describes how, despite never having been outside Nigeria, her early exposure to British and American children’s literature conditioned how as a child she wrote stories peopled with blue-eyed white characters who played in the snow, ate apples, drank ginger beer and appreciated the sun. It was only after she discovered African books that she realized that black girls could also exist in literature, and started to write about them. This talk offers a critical framework for our transnational feminist approach to Americanah—a story of postcolonial migration and return spread across three continents, intertwined with a love story, and the reinvention of identity. Set against the backdrop of military dictatorship, the novel offers opportunities to examine Nigeria’s colonial and postcolonial history. We use Adichie’s interviews, talks, and shorter essays, as well as literary criticism, media criticism, history, and film to develop an interdisciplinary theoretical approach to Americanah, winner U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.