The dangers of a single story

Listen to what Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun) has to say about growing up with English and American children’s books.

Thought-provoking, indeed. Who is being excluded from our literature?

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2 Responses to “The dangers of a single story”

  1.   Mia Macrossan Says:
    October 13th, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    Awesome talk. Growing up as a young Dutch immigrant girl in Australia I too read stories about English girls in boarding schools having midnight feasts in dorms, meeting in crypts, and in general inhabiting a world that was totally foreign to my own experience as a European and as an Australian. However I did find it all fascinating. Single stories are presented in many different forms all over the world. Thank you for this – it is going to all the English teachers at my school.

  2.   judij Says:
    October 13th, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    Thanks Mia. And of course many of us (of a certain age) also read about the dorms, Christmas snow and lashings of ginger beer – which I must say, still appeals. Younger readers now have their own stories, but I am sure that many are still missing out,

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