Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The Danger of A Single Story” [Part One] [Part Two]

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist 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.

Beautifully put and moving. 

My favorite quote (and there were many): “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes, not that they are untrue, is that they are incomplete, they make one story become the only story.”