Dangers of a single story

Ted Talk: “The Dangers of a single Story” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Novelist: Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) Americanah (2013) New York Times Book Review’s “Ten Best Books of 2013” We Should All Be Feminists (2014) Nigerian born and raised MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant” Award Winner Her 2009 TED Talk, “The Danger of A Single Story,” is now one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time. Her 2012 talk “We Should All Be Feminists” has a started a worldwide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014.

Ted Talk: “The Dangers of a single Story” Answer questions (1) and (2) before we start watching the TED Talk.

Ted Talk: “The Dangers of a single Story” 5. What does Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie mean when she says “the problem with stereotypes isn’t that they’re untrue; it’s that they’re incomplete”? 6. Why should we seek out multiple perspectives? What is the “danger of a single story”?

Ted Talk: “The Dangers of a single Story” Think about the "single stories" that exist today. How can we help dispel those dangerous myths and show the rich complexities in our world? How have we combatted this in this class? How have we not? What single story exists about your family?

(Chinua Achebe, "An African Voice", The Atlantic) "The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. … This continued until the Africans themselves, in the middle of the twentieth century, took into their own hands the telling of their story." (Chinua Achebe, "An African Voice", The Atlantic)

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