Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a writer and the author of Purple Hibiscus.
Chimamanda talked about her early life and how she got into reading and writing at a young age. Her passion got her writing about the stories she had previously read, which were all British and American. She would write about their stories. However, finally, she found books that told stories which she recognized and then starting writing about them.
Single stories are a fixed mindset which you recognize a certain place or race. For her, poverty was her single story of poor families. She then gives examples of her experiences when people show these single stories. How a great number of people see Africa with a single story. They are seen to be starving, in poverty and not having a developed lifestyle. People also have a single story of immigrants and Mexicans. that they are dangerous and are seen as less than American citizens. Single stories are formed once a story is told over and over again and soon becomes a stereotype, they are incomplete.
What I learnt…
labelling someone with short stories can have many consequences. It robs people of their dignity and their individuality.
When you realise that there is no single story about any place, any person.
When you reject that single story, you create a kind of paradise.
