University:
University of Wyoming
Course:
ANTH1300 | Introduction to Archaeology
Academic year:

2024
Views:

468

Pages:

2
Author:

Killian Mata

Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story 1. What kind of stories did British and american Adichie read and write as a child? 2. What kinds of problems She couldn't imagine that there could be stories did this create? about ordinary Nigerians, about people like her 3. What is her background? Nigerian middle class; father professor, mother administrater in a University town 4. What does the story His family was very poor; so she only saw the about the houseboy Fide poverty. But in fact, they were great craftsmen illustrate? 5. What was the attitude of She assumed that Adichie couldn't speak Enlish her American room-mate and listened to tribal music to Africans? 6. What is the common Poverty, failed governments, senseless wars, stereotype about Africa? beautiful landscapes and animals, waiting to be saved by a kind white man 7. What tradition did John Telling African stories in the West: Africans are Locke start (and Rudyard depicted as half-child, half-devil Kipling continue)? 8. Why did her professor criticise a novel she wrote? It was not 'African', did not contain his stereotypes about Africa (poverty, starvation) 9. What did Adichie experi- She realized that she had a terrible prejudice ence when she first trav- against Mexicans from the media elled to Mexico? 10. What is 'nkali'? To be greater than another 11. What is the problem with It's incomplete, it's false. Question of power: who the single story? tells what story, what makes the 'definitive' story 12. Creates stereotype 1/2 What is the consequence of the single story? 13. What do her examples of Publish house for nigerians, local film industry Nigerian activities show? 14. What project does she pursue in Nigeria? Trust for libraries for state schools 15. What are the functions of To repair broken dignity stories? 16. How do we benefit by re- We regain a kind of paradise jecting the single story? 2/2