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Photo Credits: chimamanda.com
Writer, Poet, Speaker & Translator. Adichie grew up in Nigeria. First novel - Purple Hibiscus (2003). Most recent book :
“Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions”(March 2017).
Books:◦ Purple Hibiscus 2003◦ Half of a Yellow Sun 2006◦ The Thing Around Your Neck 2009◦ Americanah 2013
Fun Fact:Adichie was featured in The 20 Youngest
Power Women in Africa 2011 by Forbes
“Show people as one thing and one thing only over and over again and
that is what they become.”
Photo Credits: ted.com
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of manyoverlapping stories. Novelist ChimamandaAdichie tells the story of how she found herauthentic cultural voice and warns that if we hearonly a single story about another person orcountry, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
The author explains that there are differentparadigms to every aspect of life and in herexperience ‘I’ is indicative of ethnicity. Adichieexplains that individuals see only one view ofthings and that is what they believe until theyare shown differently.
“The single story creates stereotype and the problem with stereotype is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete, they make one story become the only story.”
More Places To Check Out:
- (TED Global in July 2009) https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en#t7886
3 Lessons From Chimamanda NgoziAdichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story”
https://www.ethos3.com/2016/04/3-lessons-from-chimamanda-ngozi-adichies-the-danger-of-a-single-story/