Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at TEDGlobal: The Danger of a Single Story
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The Unintended Consequences of Reading African Books
When she was a child, Chude Achebe's books stirred her imagination. She realized that people like herself could also exist in literature. The discovery of African writers saved her from having a single story of what books are. "I still get quite irritable when Africa is referred to as a country"
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