“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
~ Chimamanada Ngozi Adichie
Born in Nigeria, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells her story of facing the “single story” stereotype of Africa when she came to the United States to go to college. We can all get trapped in one story championed by our “people” and the idea of “us versus them.” As an award-winning novelist, she opens our minds to new stories.
In her TED talk, she eloquently describes the paradise that we regain when we can see all the facets (the stories) of a person, a people, a country. There is a richness that happens when we can see what we have seen with new eyes. There is more beauty to life when we open to all the possible stories that life has to offer.
Watch the TED talk by Chimamanada Ngozi Adichie, “The danger of a single story”
Books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
