The Danger of a Single Story - Novelist's Real Story Goes Viral!
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This TED Talk was initially posted in 2009 and has been viewed over 10 million times but is going viral again… for all other right reasons. The world needs more than a single story!

 

South Africa (07 June 2022) – Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction. She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as “the most prominent” of a “procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors which is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature”, particularly in her second home, the United States.

This TED Talk was initially posted in 2009 and has been viewed over 10 million times but is going viral again… for all other right reasons.

“The world needs more than a single story because when we realise that there is never a single story about any place, we regain paradise.”

Watch it below:


Sources: TED 
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