all the stories she was reading and writing about were about white people and stuff she had no idea about because she never left her country

- it changed her perception

- she started to write about things she recognized

She is a Nigerian woman who had the experience that a lot of people had prejudices against her

We think it's because Fide and their family have a biased perspective on foreigners from Africa. The reason is, they only received a limited amount of information mixed together with stereotypes that have influenced their view on African individuals.

A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives, of difference, of darkness.

Because the story does not adhere to the "typical African" clichés. These say that people in Africa are poor, have no food and not enough to drink. In the book, the characters were "too middle class".

she tells that she once realised that she believed a single story about Mexico. She heard a lot of negative stories in the US media where they showed Mexicans only as immigrants crossing the border. But when she visited Mexico she realised that people were doing more than just crossing the borders. she was ashamed by her behavior then.

She found out how hard the life there is and how bad the health systems are. What the Mexicans do in their free time or daily basis and was ashamed of herself, how the media coverage of Mexicans became object immigrants in her mind.

Show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

The Word translates to being greater than another. Stories are too defined by the principle of Nkali: How they are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power

she tells about how one story does not tell the story of one. certain stereotypes make it hard to get to know one when you already made up your mind after one look or one horrible story. Not every good writer or African person has a bad life that is followed by trauma…

The problem is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. making one story becoming the only story

it leads to stereotypes making people see other people in a wrong way without questioning the truth and then they don't treat each other the same anymore