TED: Ideas worth spreading. CharlesLeadbeater_2010S. The “Single Story” of “Africa” By Lisa Wade, PhD, Nov 17, 2009, at 10:30 am In this 20 minute video, novelist Chimamanda Adichie describes, with insight and grace, the problem of the “single story.” She says, “Show a people as one thing, and only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.”
Focusing on her experience as an “African” in the U.S. (she is from Nigeria), she also describes her own experiences with realizing that she has heard only a single story, whether of rural Nigerians or Mexicans. Highly recommended (or read the transcript here): Via Stuff White People Do. JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out.