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Adichie's Dangers Of A Single Story
In Adichie's 'Dangers of a Single story' Ted talk, Adichie utilizes her experiences as a Nigerian girl growing up reading stories about little girls with blonde hair and blue eyes. They played in the snow and drank ginger beer. It was in reading these types of stories that she had concluded that people like her could not exist in the world of literature. It wasn't until she had discovered African books that had characters that she could relate to that she realized that black women and individuals a like truly could exist in literature. Adichie's experiences and stories allow us to understand that by allowing only a "single story" or one side of a story to be told we completely disregard the other parts that story that are also of importance.
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