Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Danger Of A Single Story

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In 2009 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gave a Ted Talk on “The Danger of a Single Story”. Adichie's Ted Talk was inspired by the forgotten tragedies and history of Nigeria. When Chimamanda started writing at the age of seven she wrote about what she read in British American books: white people with blue eyes, people talking about the weather, people playing in the snow, and people drinking ginger beer. Then Chimamanda discovered African Literature, she realized that people like her could exist in literature and so she started to write about what she knew rather than what she read. African Literature saved Chimamanda from having a single story of what books are. It was when Chimamanda was eight years old that her family got a new “house boy”. The
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