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Adichie comes from a middle- class family. They have a house boy, and his name is Fide. "The only thing my mother told us about him was that his family was very poor." And when Adichie didn't finish her food her mom wanted her to finish her food because some people don't have food. And Adichie felt really sad for Fide. This is a example of a single story because it is the "Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."  This speaker tells this story because is important because it gives a complete  understanding   that you should be grateful for what you have because other people might not have to opportunity to do stuff that you do. People shouldn't just look at them like they are poor, that is just one part of there story, and people are complex and no single story can accurately define them.

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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,

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Adichie has been a life long reader.  This passion for reading inspired her to start writing books of her own. However, American and British books were the only books she knew.  She began to assume that all books were foreign, and books that she could relate to didn't exist.  She found very few books that were relatable, but those few books inspired her to keep writing more. When a story teller, tells their own journey and path,  revieling more of their indentity.  It makes the story have a more completes message, creating a more believable story. This is an example of  "power is the ability to not just tell the story of someone else but to make it definitive." When the story teller explains their own past it makes the story more powerful and definitive because you can visulize the details from the story tellers life placed into the story.

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"I come from a conventional, middle-class Nigerian family. My father was a professor. My mother was an administrator. And so we had, as was the norm, live-in domestic help, who would often come from nearby rural villages."

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she says she was an "early writer" started writing at the age of 7. she also loved to read and started really early but she was only reading books about white people so that was the only thing she wrote about because that was her only perspective on what books are about. she started to single story all her books writing about the weather and other stuff like that but she never wrote one thing about her life. "Now, things changed when I discovered African books. There weren't many of them available, and they weren't quite as easy to find as the foreign books."  from then one she didnt have a single story on books. this is how she went from only writing about one thing a single storying her writing to changing and writing about a ton of other stuff.

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"My mother said that I started to read at the age of two, although I think four was probobly close to the truth. So I was an early reader. "

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Too often a storyteller gives just one perspective, so it is important here when the speaker says she will tell the reader "a few personal stories". She provides multiple stories revealing a more complete view of her identity. I believe this is an example of using stories "to empower and humanize". The speaker tells stories to complete our understanding of how various stories together give a more complete picture of a person or place. Putting the good stories together with tales of challenges makes her relate-able and believable.

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Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, "secondly."

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"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. "

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"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."

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story

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Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.