Adichie expands this idea in her TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story” (2009), where she recalls arriving in the United States and being met with one story about Africa: poverty, war, and helplessness. None of this was entirely fabricated, yet it erased thriving cities, literature, and everyday joy. By turning one narrative into the narrative, stereotypes strip people of their complexity, much as a silhouette captures a recognizable outline but omits depth, color, and motion. [...]
