and it was there that she learned for the 1st time what it means to be black she talks about this in her novel americanah in a teaching analyzes the punishes and pervasive problems of racism that continue to this day the breakthrough novel became a huge international success. i grew up thinking that there are certain things that happened in nigeria that would never happen in america that i grew up something if the government did something i would think to myself but of course never in america and now it's happening in america and there's a sense in which america has become ordinary. and a morning i mean grief rage drives her on in her online ted talk we should all be feminists deep she talks about the patriarchy as an outdated for our society that video is a viral hit with millions of clicks the person more likely to lead is not the physically stronger person it is the more creative person the more intelligent person the more innovative person we have evolved but it seems to me that ideas of