Supporting Details by Sarah Gray

I recently spoke at a university where a student told me that it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel

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So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

It is impossible to talk about the single story without talking about power.

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Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.

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“All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor.“

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I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind