The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
http://www.ted.com Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns...
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I'm a storyteller.And I would like to tell you a few personal storiesabout what I like to call "the danger of the single story."I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria.My mother says that I started reading at the age of two,although I think four is probably close to the truth.So I was an early reader,and what I read were British and American children's books.I was also an early writer,and when I began to write, at about the age of seven,stories in pencil with crayon illustrationsthat my poor mother was obligated to read,I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading:All my characters were white and blue-eyed,they played in the snow,they ate apples,(Laughter)and they talked a lot about the weather,how lovely it was that th...
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I'm a storyteller.And I would like to tell you a few personal storiesabout what I like to call "the danger of the single story."I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria.My mother says that I started reading at the age of two,although I think four is probably close to the truth.So I was an early reader,and what I read were British and American children's books.I was also an early writer,and when I began to write, at about the age of seven,stories in pencil with crayon illustrationsthat my poor mother was obligated to read,I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading:All my characters were white and blue-eyed,they played in the snow,they ate apples,(Laughter)and they talked a lot about the weather,how lovely it was that th...
