Explain In Your Own Words The Concept Of Single Story

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1. Who is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is a story teller. She was born in East Africa, in a Country called Nigeria. She claims to have started writing as a child at the age of 7 years old. She has studied in both Africa, and the United States Universities, and is highly educated. She has written many books, feels that she is like the story tellers of old.

2. Explain in your own words the concept of “a single story”. Is that when you have only one story that you know and believe it is most likely bias. It could be because someone has told you only one part of the subject in order to have power over you or your belief in that subject matter. Most importantly is the fact that if you don’t know the whole story, and your preconceived idea of that subject may be totally wrong.

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What is the Danger of a single story? The danger is that a single story could make one prejudice, biased, and even totally wrong. I would try to explain it like a person who was looking at the world as if peering through a gun barrel, never seeing the whole big

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