In this talk, Chimamanda Adichie speaks on the "danger of a single story". That is, the dangers of uneducated assumptions of an idea, people, or nation. Adichie gives her story of growing up in Nigeria, and learning to read and write from a young age. She speaks of the western children's books that she read, and how they influenced her writing to exclusively include characters like those she read about. They had to be white, have blue eyes, ect. For years, she grew up with the "single story" that literature had to contain characters like those she had read about. They could not contain characters that were, in her own words, "like her". She then talks about her experiences going to university in the United States, and how her roommate had all
