Summary Of The Danger Of A Single Story By Adichie

Listening to Chimamanda Adichie speak was very eyeopening. She speaks about the “Danger of a Single Story”. She talks about how if you hear a single story, and show people as one thing, over and over again it eventually becomes true and makes the group of people that thing. Adichie talks about how her American roommate could not understand how she spoke english well, use a stove, and she even asked to her Adichie’s tribal music. She talks about how her roommate pitied her before she even knew her. In America the single story about Africa, is that we believe that their country is poor and poverished. Americans cannot see a wealthy city in Africa, because all we have ever heard is that they are to poor for food. While that may be true in some African societies it is not true for all of
In the video Adichie says, “stereotypes are not untrue but incomplete; they make one story the only story”. This concept of “The Danger of a Single Story” is that we are making these stereotypes and robbing people of their dignity. Adichie says that robbing people of their dignity it makes the recognition of equality hard to see, and emphasizes differences instead of