• The danger of a single story
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  • Provide three examples of "single stories" from her entire talk.
    The foreign children's book she read as a kid, Fide and his family's life, her roommate's perception of African people, her own prejudiced views of Mexicans
  • According to Adichie, how is a "single story" created? (9:25)
    Show a people as only one thing, over and over again, and that's what they become.
  • According to Adichie, what are the dangers of a "single story"?
    How stories are told, who, how and when they tell them is dependant on power, and power is the ability to make it the definitive story of a person
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