Realistic Features in No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names

This article deals with realistic features in No Violet Bulawayo's We Need New Names. Its objective is to show how Bulawayo succeeds to combine African migrants' true facts with her fiction. In other terms, the analysis of this study lies on the different features Bulawayo resorts to for their achievements in defining each fact in this novel. As for the method, realistic, sociological and psychological approaches are prominent for the success of this study. It results that, Bulawayo succeeds to combine African migrants' true facts with her fiction in attributing realistic features to fictitious facts. She attributes realistic features to migrants from Africa to the West, departure motivation to the new land, Africans' positive and negative experiences in the United States, cultural experience in the new land. Additionally, it results that Bulawayo also attributes realistic features to the death of Bornfree which is also an African fictitious country knowing revolution for its change.