ENGL 2Q99 Lecture Notes - Igbo Music, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Mortified
26 Feb 2013
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Chimamanda ngozi adichie: 1977- she"s in her early 30"s. The danger of a single story ted talk. Ted talks is public lectures on diverse issues in 2009 adichie gave one of these lectures called danger of a single story" regarding the dangers of only hearing one side of the story/history. She started writing about her own people because she was so used to reading about white european peoples, that she didn"t think her kind of people" could even exist in literature. However, she still liked the white people" stories, because they opened up her imagination and opened her up to other/new worlds. Her talk stated that someone cannot be defined by simply one story, or one attribute such as poor . When she went to college, her roommate had only heard one story of. African people, and then she placed all africans under this one story".
