The danger of a single story

Here’s an excellent video of the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, speaking about her experiences, and how a “single story” of a people does no justice to them – flattens them, and is usually used to stereotype and dis-empower. How the many different stories of a person or people must be told to get a true understanding of them.

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