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She’s a story teller she was able to read at two or four early writer to she wrote about stereotypes white and blue eyed kids the dangers of a single story she used to read those books its a ted talks video she read British and American children's books her characters liked apples there’s stuff about ginger beer the weather books can’t be about stuff you don’t recognize all people dads a teacher all people can be in books they got a house boy his brothers goood at something she was biased her r9omates biased about Africa and didn’t know about the language Africa is not a country she’s African from Nigeria people are idiots John look who sailed to Africa a professional idiot they have no home there less civilized there beasts no heads or something like that ms silverberg used her one stop there waiting for white people to save them stories in the west Rudyard Kipling devil child? What’s African authenticity the professors an idiot she visited Mexico immigration means Mexican people still idiots a single story is one story made up your perceptive not whAT actually happened she read American psycho someone said it was sad that men in Nigeria were abusers she said it was sad young people in  America were serial killers ms silverberg stoppe d three times a single story makes stereotypes it robs people of dignity if there was a something Nigerians can and will read bossy people stupid laws mollywood? She has friends everywhere bad government libraries workshop stories nmatter stories can be good and bad d when we reject the single story paradise by then way this is the real charlotte g not that fake in my class over there

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Nigeria. University Camus 2 or. British children's books. Early writer. White blue eyed characters. Ginger Beer. African books saved her from having a single story in books, Professor dad, administrator mom. Fide houseboy poor family, brother made fancy basket, she didn’t realize they could make something. English college roommate thought she didn’t know English or music or use the stove. Single story of Africa is poor, pity. She didn’t think of herself of being African, in the US she believed she was African. And learned that US thought of Africans are all in poverty. She learns why People beleive all those things about Africa its because they only learn a single story from misconceptions. John Lok BEASTS WHO HAVE NO HOUSES PEOPLE WITHOUT HEADS!!!?????NO EYES EARS????? That guy size kinda crazy. That’s also where people learned the and started telling bad false stories of Africans. African authenticity. Because they were not driving cars too much like the white professor not poor or starving. THE PROFFESOR said THAT about her book she got published and its actually what he thought and what a lot of America thought. She didn’t know what authentic African was. Stories of Mexicans fleecing healthcare, fleeing across the border from media. She beleived the single story of Mexico and was ashamed. A single story is one way to see people. Power. Those with more gives them the power to tell those things that are false and have them believe you. That one stories are definitive of people. The novel had the father of her story was a serial killer and a kid asked its sad all Africans are physical abusers. She said she read American psycho and it was sad that young Americans were serial killers. some family that died and there was not a lot of food and a reppresive government. stereotype are not complete. Single stories rob people of dignity. It makes people be more different and left similar. Interview someone said she liked her novel but the ending and she wanted a sequel and Ed told her what she wanted her to write in the sequel. What if her roommate new Contemporary Nigerian music English singing. Law woman needed husbands consent for passport. Failed infrastructure failed Government. Some thrive. Writer workshops reading writing for those that don’t have it. Stories can be used to repair broken dignity. Southern life book. When we reject the single story we regain a kind of paradise SOURCE TED TALK A SINGLE STORY

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The danger of a single story: From Nigeria.Early reader and writer. Mother says she started reading at age 2 but she thinks she stated a 4. Read British and American  children’s books.desired to drink ginger beer.She thought that just because her color of her skin she could not do literature.Was 19 when she went to U.S.Roomate was surprised that she knew how to speak English.She learned English in Africa.John look sails to Africa.is an author.her professor said something offensive.she went to Mexico and got overwhelmed with shame. nkali is to be greater than another.She learned that writers had an unhappy childhood. But she had a happy childhood.one of her friends had passed away in a plane crash.People that could read would read.A woman told what to change and write about her book? She was worried that her roommate wold know her personal stuff.She teaches writing workshops.And she is so happy that so many people have applied.She has helped many people like school.When we realized there is no story we regain a kind of paradise

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I wonder what her mother thought of the stories she wrote, since she lived in Nigeria. It’s weird to me to think that all books were foreign since a majority of the books Iv’e read are American. Awful roommate. Absolutely awful.

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What dose she mean by early reader and writer

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I hope her nonprofit will achieve her dreams for it

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She told why people listen to biases and stereotypes for maybe there entire life and think it’s normal

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What your think is not always true

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She wanted other people to have different POVs and to see people in different ways then “the single story” would show

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That was amazing!

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She’s telling a story about how you can’t trust stories? What she said about she thought when she was a kid was that stories were not allowed to be relatable to the author. The best kind of writing is the kind you can pour your soul into and make a vibrant picture for the reader. Her English roommate seems extremely racist, however I believe she is not trying to be, even though she definitely is. And I also think the speaker does not blame her for her biases. It shocked me when she told the story about how there was a person over the loudspeaker only two days ago from when she is giving her speech. When an author says that all African’s have no houses, I would’ve been shocked if that was about me. I would feel the way people feel when someone spreads rumors about you. Has he ever been to Africa? Is the author speaking out of experience? Or biases? Maybe stories his parents or adults told him when he was a kid. Someone claims that an author writes a story that is not ‘authentically African’ even though the story itself is written by an African woman? I believe that the author is not shaming people who trust in the power of a single story. She tells a story of how she stereotype’d the Mexicans are only immigrants. She is showing people the light and not getting mad at them for something I guess they cannot control. When one writes a story I guess they have to be safe about not making all the people the same kind of person, as to not represent the entire culture the author is from, that the book is from. Even one character can shape an entire culture from another point of view. I do believe that it is impossible to know an entire story from every point of view, because everyone has their own stories has also felt the biases from their own experiences that one other simply cannot feel. But she is right, it does help to have at least more than one point of view.

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She talks about power and it made me think about vehement fact that power can be complete different from different POVs that different people have meaning someone could have power in a group of people but then there will be someone else that will think that they or someone they know in their life or in media has more power then that person because of the biases that someone may have or people around them may have.

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She is a very confident woman

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It is very sad that African fire trucks did not have water and could not put out the flames of the plane crash

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She really cares about her roommate

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Ginger beer sounds gross

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She talks about a quote that was not really possible and is more of a metaphor and was made into a thought that all African people from all country’s and all city’s were poor and were in poverty making people that don’t know much about Africa and all of its cultures and people think that everyone in Africa is in poverty

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John Lok must have been blind or something because how could he not see their heads

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The stories this woman was reading had no colored people, meaning she might’ve lived in a time when racism was a thing. (Still is sadly..) She thought books were supposed to have white kids and blue eyes. She talks about how she never new colored people could be in literature. She says that the African American stories saved her from having on side. Her American roommate thought she didn’t know how to use a stove, she was biased to African Americans.
The roommate only had one single story about Africa, so she thought the women telling her story could never be like her. Reading one single sentence like “African Americans have no rights.” can change everything on the point of view.
So Americans were very stereotypical and racist. The woman thinks her roommate has heard the same single story but differently every time she heard it.
So like African Americans the Mexicans were also looked down at. She saw the Mexicans as sad people who work non-stop. But she walked some more and turned into another street. A street full of life. There were men and women drinking, smoking and laughing their lives away. At first the woman was surprised, she quickly realized she had bought then single story of Mexicans. Because of Americas power she had many stories of America, but at the same time she had no stories of America.
All of these stories made this women who she is.

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If you only get a bunch of certain stories you only get one side of a story

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What is the song that she played when she asked for there tribal music?

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She was from Nigeria her dad is a professor

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That’s a little bit sad

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She read at the age of 4 or 2