How migration, language, and return reshape the stories we tell about belonging
Students read an original composition about a student returning to a city through several languages and memories, alongside a clearly labeled classroom paraphrase and close reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013; ISBN 9780307455925). They examine how Ifemelu's movement between Nigeria and the United States, her observations about race and language, and her eventual return complicate the idea of home. The lesson returns to the essential question: How do we make a self and a sense of belonging in a world that keeps changing?
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