![]() Drawing on black sexuality scholarship as well as insights regarding theories of intersectionality, I argue that through the detailed exploration of the protagonist Ifemelu’s sexual identity, Americanah broadens the concept of Afropolitan identity construction for black heterosexual women. It is crucial for female Afropolitans to form a racialized sexual identity as well. Considering the ongoing racist stigmatization of black sexuality in Western societies, I want to suggest that Selasi’s conceptualization of Afropolitanism, while potentially open to expansion, is currently incomplete. This term holds that Africans of the world “must form an identity along at least three dimensions: national, racial, cultural-with subtle tensions in between,” and my article proposes to include a sexual identity category. ![]() ![]() In discussing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s award-winning novel Americanah, this article aims to expand Taiye Selasi’s concept of Afropolitanism. ![]()
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