Detailed annotations for 'A Danger Of A Single Story' by chimamanda ngozi adichie, a non-fiction text GCSE students will need to know for questions 4 & 5 for their English language exam at the end of year 11. These annotations go through the whole text and point out which quotations would be best t...
From The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call “the danger of
the single story.” I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started
reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth. So I was an early reader,
and what I read were British and American children's books.
, I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with
crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was
reading: all my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they
talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out.
Now, this despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria. I had never been outside Nigeria. We didn't have snow,
we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to. ...
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