Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was raised in a middle class Nigerian household reading English and American children’s books, and so began her early writing career focusing on characters who played in the snow and drank ginger beer, because that was who stories were about, right?
This was the beginning of her realization that many stories go into weaving a complete picture of a class, a country, a culture
As she reflects on the many times she, herself, realized she made assumptions based on one perspective or been subject to the same treatment, a pattern emerges on what the true danger of the single story is.
“The single story creates stereotypes. And the problem with stereotypes isn’t that they’re untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story the only story”
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