The Speaker for the TED Talk on “The Danger of a Single Story” is a native of Nigeria, a country within the continent of Africa, her name is Chimamanda Adichie. She starts out her speech reminiscing on her childhood, during which she divulges her love for reading and writing at an early age. She had been conditioned with the basis of her seemingly normal life, far from stereotypical misconceptions involving countries of Africa. It is not until the speaker moves to the United States that she realizes how dangerous the single story of her people could have been. She claims that a single story is a theif, it robs people of their dignity much less their “true” story. These single sided stories are narrow, oversimplified and fail to acknowledge
