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Americanah is a 2013 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her third novel and fourth book, it was published on 14 May 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. The novel recounts the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who emigrates to the United States to attend a university. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2013.

The novel was the story of a young Nigerian woman and her male schoolmate, who had not studied the trans-Atlantic slave trade in school and had no understanding of the racism associated with being Black in the United States or class structures in the United Kingdom. It explores the central message of a "shared Black consciousness", as both of the characters – one in Britain and the other in America – experience a loss of identity when they try to navigate their lives abroad. A commercial success upon publication, French media company France 24's 2015 report shows Americanah has sold more than 500,000 copies in the US and has been translated into 25 languages.