Chapter 27 of

"Americanah"
Aïtana and Thaïs
Summary:
• A recap of what happened in the chapter
• Prejudices moments
• How the characters dealt with the prejudices
What happened?
• He goes to a bookshop café to 'treat himself".
• He reads a lot because it is the only time when he can "become Obinze again".
• Meets a widow and her son at the bookshop café
• He thinks of Ifemelu: "Ifemelu came to his mind when he thought of love".
• Obinze contacts Tendai, a woman with who he had sex because he is horny.
• In the train he sees a white woman reading about immigrants in the newspaper.
• He thinks of colonization and how British people prefer to forget about it "The denial of history".
• "He had never felt so lonely"
Prejudices moments
• Woman in the tube
• "suspicious eyes"
How the characters dealt with the
prejudices
• "He saw the unfettered non-white foreignness of this scene through the suspicious eyes
of the white woman on the tube."