The Single Story
This is what Adichie calls the danger of seeing a person or group as only one thing.
a single story
This was the name of Adichie’s house boy.
Fide
This was the country where Adichie went to university when she was 19.
the United States
This Igbo word loosely translates to “to be greater than another.”
Hint (starts with N)
nkali
Chinua Achebe calls this the idea of having more than one perspective or story.
a balance of stories
Adichie says the problem with stereotypes is not that they are this, but that they are incomplete.
untrue
This was the only thing Adichie’s mother told her about Fide’s family.
his family was very poor
Adichie’s roommate was surprised that she could speak this language so well.
English
According to Adichie, stories are defined by how they are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told, and this.
power
Adichie says stories can be used to do this to people, but they can also be used to empower and humanize.
dispossess and malign
According to Adichie, the single story creates ...
stereotypes
Fide’s brother made this beautifully patterned item out of dyed raffia.
basket
Adichie’s roommate called this type of music “tribal music,” but Adichie played Mariah Carey instead.
her music
Adichie says power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it this.
the definitive story of that person
Adichie says stories can break the dignity of a people, but they can also do this.
repair that broken dignity
Adichie says a single story emphasizes how we are this rather than how we are similar.
different
Before visiting Fide’s village, Adichie had only heard this one thing about his family.
they were poor
Adichie says her roommate’s default position toward her was a kind of this.
patronizing, well meaning pity
Mourid Barghouti says that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and start with this word.
secondly
Adichie says there is never this about any place.
a single story
Adichie says the consequence of the single story is that it does this to people and makes recognition of our equal humanity difficult.
rob people of dignity
After seeing the basket, Adichie realized it had become impossible for her to see Fide’s family as anything else but this.
poor
Adichie says her roommate had a single story of Africa: a single story of this.
catastrophe
Adichie says starting a story with the arrows of the Native Americans instead of this event gives you an entirely different story.
the arrival of the British
When we reject the single story and realize there is never a single story about any place, Adichie says we regain this.
a kind of paradise