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Adichie brings up her own personal “single story” experiences, such as her experience with Fide and his family, and her experience with her roommate in university.

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She talks about her own life as a Nigerian author, showing she understands both sides. Being stereotyped and having stereotyped others.

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She mentions creating all the characters she illustrated as white people who have blue eyes and drank ginger beer.

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Adichie is very confident in the delivery of her presentation. She presents with extreme clarity, and while she does stop and laugh with the audience once in a while, she never gets off topic from her main point.

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She uses comparisons like how Americans have “a single story” about Africa as poor and primitive to show the flaw in generalizations

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Adichie brings up various statistics during her presentation, such as the fact that roughly 5000 people sign up for a single job vacancy in Nigeria.

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She shares a story about her American roommate, who was surprised that she spoke English fluently and listened to Mariah Carey, evoking empathy and shock.

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Before her travels to Mexico she believed that Mexicans were the abject immigrants which caused her shame upon herself because she’d bought into the single story of Mexicans.

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She mentions a quote from a London merchant named John Lok in which he referred Black Africans as ''beasts who have no houses''

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She uses Fide’s family as an example, to show that she too was a victim of “The single story”, and was shocked to learn that there was more than what she thought she knew.

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She compares how Western literature shaped her childhood ideas of what stories “should be (only white, foreign characters), showing logical evidence of media influence.

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She talks about how her American roomate was shocked she knew basic things, like turning on a stove

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She argues that single stories are not just untrue but incomplete.

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She explains that hearing one story about a group leads to stereotypes. She compares how people have a single story of Africa to how she only once heard a single story about Mexicans.