No Shade To Lupita, But Here Are 11 Nigerian Actresses Who Could Have Been Great As Ifemelu In The Americanah Adaptation

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Pepi Sonuga

Pepi, who is Igbo and Yoruba and was born and raised in Nigeria, was a star on the Freeform series Famous in Love. The 26-year-old actress can hold her own on-screen and also looks youthful enough to have played both the secondary school-aged Ifemelu and the adult version.

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