Black Feminism , Afropolitanism and Intersectionality :

Abstract

This research examines the notion of Black Feminism in Sojourner Truth’s speech “Ain’t I a Woman”, and traces its expansion to Afropolitanism in Adichie’s novel “Americanah”. It also analyzes the theory of intersectionality and how it is perpetuated in both samples. First, using major themes of black feminist thought, an entailed analysis was provided in order to reflect on the impact that the speech promotes ; Then, a structural analysis followed in order to elucidate the ideology of the latter . It concludes with a vaunt on Truth’s contribution to the sphere of Black Feminism, simultaneously with providing an exploratory reading to Adichie's “Americanah” focusing on the kaleidoscopic view of the characters and their experiences as hybridized diaspora. It deduces with embarking on the way the novel sanctions Africanism and valuates going home. This research further concludes with the theory of intersectionality that serves as aviable theoretical standpoint in this work that curate both the speech “Ain’t I a Woman” and the novel “Americanah” to gauge at the intersection of the different identity markers that constantly subsume and doom minorities as “ the other”.