What Are The Dangers Of A Single Story?

Our lives, our culture consists of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells a story about how she found a real cultural voice - and there is a risk of serious misunderstanding if we only listen to stories about others and countries I warned.

Inspired by the history and tragedy of Nigeria, the novels and stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie have been forgotten by the recent generations of Westerners, the jewels of the crown of foreign literature.

Adichie's book "Around the neck" is a collection of stories about the corrupt environment of the Nigerian country and the efforts to deal with Nigerian immigration experience.

I am a storyteller. I would like to tell you some personal stories about what I like to call "the dangers of a single story." I grew up on the college campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother told me that I started studying when I was two years, but I think the four might be close to the truth. So I am an early reader, I am reading about books for children in England and America. When I started writing, when I was around seven years old, my poor mother was forced to read the pencil story of the picture of crayons. And blue eyes, they are playing in the snow, they eat apples, they talk about much of the weather, how beautiful the sun is. Now I live in Nigeria. I have never been to Nigeria. It did not snow, I eat mango, it was not necessary, so we never talked about the weather. .

Adichie sees in the popular TED lecture "2009 Single Story" in 2009, explains the risk of simplification of a country or a certain country into a single story by a novelist It was. "If Africa's all knowledge comes from a popular image unless I grew up in Nigeria, Africa is fighting with beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and unnecessary wars and difficult to understand I also think that it is people, I can not talk and I am waiting for a gentle white foreigner to save, "she said in a conversation.