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This shows that when she was an early reader it impacted when she started writing and what she started to write.
The British and American books had an impact on her wrting because they were books about things she dint know about. Like snow and Apples and stuff like that, things that arn't in Nigeria. So when she started writing

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This shows that the stories she read impacted the way she thought and acted by them all just being a single narrative. This single story made her think about snow and apples and the weather when they did not have apple trees and snow and the weather was not to interesting to talk about.  The single stories made her think that that was the definitive story of the world.

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"I was also an early reader, mom mom said I started reading at the age of 2, but I think that it was actually probably 4."

"So I was an early reader, and what I read were British and American children's books.

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She shows that stories can have a huge impact on people and that they matter. When she read the books from England, she also wrote about snow, and apples and ginger beer, even though she had none of that were she lived. If she had read Nigerian books she would have written like them. Since she is a writer, she knows that single stories can "dispossess and mailgn" and "break dignity". But on the other side of the scale, books that are not single stories can "repair broken dignity." She wants everyone to know, that as a writer she is trying to create books that don't have single stories but empower and teach people about the whole picture. When people know about the whole picture and not a sliver of it, the world will become a better places.

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"I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading"

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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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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.