African in America
African in America is a sweeping, contemporary epic about identity, ambition, and the cost of becoming in a globalized world.
When Ndondwa Chimtedza, a brilliant young Malawian woman, earns her place at the United Nations in New York, she believes she has finally arrived — that the world is open to those who work hard and dream audaciously. But in boardrooms built on hierarchy and hallways lined with glass ceilings, she discovers that race, power, and gender are not just ideas — they are systems, spoken and unspoken, that she must learn to navigate or be swallowed by.
Told across continents — from Mangochi to Manhattan, from the quiet bureaucracy of the UN to the high-stakes world of tech and diplomacy — African in America follows Ndondwa through love and loss, grief and reinvention, as she learns that success without self-understanding is another form of exile.
It is a story of becoming in the truest sense — not the glittering surface of achievement, but the private reckoning beneath it. As Ndondwa rises in global circles, balancing duty and desire, she must confront what it means to lead, to love, and to build power ethically in a world that rewards performance over truth.
With the grace of Americanah, the political pulse of Madam Secretary, and the intimate tenderness of From Scratch, African in America is a modern classic in the making — a story of an African woman who dared to cross oceans, only to discover that the greatest frontier was within herself.
