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On Adichie's Americanah
By Biko Agozino
The moral of the story is that African men and women can also be very romantic (contrary to stereotypes) even though some ladies remain 'fake' and are out to find 'the next big thing' while some of the men are 'assholes', a very American word, we are told. But as Adichie warned in her popular TED talk, readers should beware of the single story. There are still men who are near perfect enough to deserve the return of a true lover from a distant land and to be seduced afresh with girly stories of a dancing peacock who did not seem to have impressed the ever-hungry peahen that ignored his prattling little dance, as is the case in the animal kingdom where females play hard to get and in sharp contrast to the liberated womanism of the returnee 'Nigerpolitan' who made sure that she bought a packet of condoms for protection just in case her married ex-boyfriend forgot to put some in his pockets, as if they were candies.
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