and they both have to deal with being black abroad or find out why some nigerians think lupita won't live up to the character but 1st let's listen to chimamanda ngozi adichie talking to d.w. about how the book america changed her life i think it freed me. i think because america is a book that i. wanted to write and i didn't want to follow convention and in some ways it had to be seen anything like it which is to say the story of immigrants from africa but who are not escaping war or poverty but simply want who have dreams you know in the way that it in human beings have had for centuries that we sometimes we call them we think we want to see what's there because what's here isn't mom. and i wanted to tell that story because it's a story i know it's