One of the aspects of the book that I found interesting was the way Adichie uses Ifemelu and her American counterparts to raise commentary on the realtionship between Africans and Black Americans. Adichie works to identify how these groups are not the same but also how America tends to overlook that because of their skin color. When Ifemelu first goes to the US one of the biggest things that shocks her is the obsession that many Americans have with race.She learns that she must be mindful of what she says and how she reacts to certain things that could potentially be racially insensitive. Ifemelu's cultural ignorance to this is shown in various stages in the novel. One of the most notable example of this is when Ifemelu is in class and a discussion about censorship of the n-word arises. This conversation stuck out to me because it shows how people who look the same can have such widely different views on something that affects them all in one way or another. The cultural significance of the word is important because affected what side of the debate the students fell on and was the thing that set the African students apart from the Black ones. Despite the students having conflicting views, America still seems to group them together and push the narrative they must act as uniform minority. Where I think the divide between the two groups is shown most clearly is with Dike and Ifemelu. In America, Ifemelu quickly learns that Dike was nothing like how she was as a child. When she learns he couldn't do certain math skills like division while in first grade she responds by saying that she could do it at his age. When Ifemelu eats a banana with peanuts because she thinks the American fruits are bland and that's how they eat it in Nigeria, Dike is disgusted and says "I don't think I like Nigeria, Coz"(139). It's the little things that separates them even though they came from the same place. Dike embodies the Black American experience while Ifemelu is the Nigerian experience. Another thing that I noticed while reading was the way that mental health was perceived and treated by both groups. While Black Americans still often neglect their mental health, Ifemelu's Nigerian perspective completely ignores it. When Ifemelu falls into a deep depression towards the beginning of her stay in America, she refuses to acknowledge it. She thinks that the illness is an American thing that simply isn't real let alone something that could affect her. Later when Dike attempts to take his life and his depression is revealed, it shocks Ifemelu to her core. She gets angry and blames Uju saying that it was because of his experience. I found this reaction to be very interesting because she completely dismisses what Uju says about how some people just develop depression and she tries to find the root of where the depression could’ve stemmed from. Dike's experience with casual racism is shown several times throughout the novel and I think that Ifemelu blames America for his depression because he had to go through these things. I don't know whether that is true or not but it was something interesting that I noticed and wanted to give a little more thought to. Adichie highlights the African and Black American experience opposing each other because it shows how jarring it can be to Africans to come to a place like American and be put into a category that doesn't necessarily represent them. She makes the point that skin color is the most prominent aspect of a person and their cultural and personal background will always be secondary.