Her blog becomes popular, and she accepts many invitations to speak at conferences and events. In America, bored with her public relations job, Ifemelu quits and starts a blog devoted to race in America, explaining her unique perspective as a non-American black person discovering race for the first time. Obinze meets and marries a dutiful woman named Kosi, who gives him a daughter.
He attempts to arrange a sham marriage and gain citizenship, but is caught just before his wedding and deported to Nigeria, where he becomes the employee of a rich man called Chief, who manages to make Obinze very wealthy, as well. Meanwhile, Obinze moves to London and works illegally, as his visa has expired. She and Curt date for a time, but she is frustrated by his inability to understand her racial struggles and cheats on him.
She finds work as a nanny and begins a relationship with the cousin of her employer, a wealthy young white man named Curt. Though she and Obinze have been in constant contact, she now cuts him off completely, ashamed to tell him what has happened to her. During a grueling job search, she is sexually exploited by a prospective employer. She lives with Uju in Brooklyn, then in Philadelphia, slowly adapting to American culture. Ifemelu and Obinze attend the same university, but constant teacher strikes and general instability cause Ifemelu to leave for America to study.
Uju is threatened by The General’s surviving relatives and so flees to America with her son. Meanwhile, Aunty Uju pursues a relationship with a married general, who gives her a son, Dike, before dying under suspicious circumstances. They spend all their time together and know that their love is meant to be. In secondary school, Ifemelu meets Obinze, a kind, handsome boy with whom she quickly falls in love. Her closest confidante is Aunty Uju, her father’s younger sister. Ifemelu grows up in Lagos, Nigeria with a religious mother and a patient, occasionally unemployed father.
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