Reflection on the danger of a single story by Chimamanda Adichie
cc wilkernet I have recently enrolled in the course Equality Unbounded (#unboundeq) organised by Maha Bali, Catherine Cronin and Mia Zamora. One of the first tasks in this course is to watch Chimamanda Adichie's 'The danger of a single story' TED talk and reflect on it. Since I watched it yesterday for the like 100th time, there are two thoughts that have come to my mind, that kind of challenge the danger of a single story. But first let me say it out loud: I love the talk , I love Chimamanda's books (I think I have read all of them) - I am huge fan. I have used her talk in many ways in my work here in South Africa, it speaks directly to the digital storytelling work we are doing, aimed at creating spaces for students to share their stories and learn about self and other in the process. One of the most interesting project was one that I did with my American colleague Kristi Stewart , from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. In this project,