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I love this! I totally wrote
I love this! I totally wrote stories about things completely irrelevant to my life when I was a child too, notably blond/blue-eyed characters. It seems there are many similarities between a middle class Jamaican childhood and a middle class Nigerian childhood.
I wouldn't challenge Adichie on the single story theory
I like to think of all stories as episodes or chapters in one grand story, but now I have to reconsider from her perspective. This (having to reconsider, but not getting upset about it) is an example of why I enjoy your TED embeds in the first place.
On an amusing note, I suspect Adiche has discovered how to get Richard Branson to fix something: Go to TED and mention Virgin Airlines' incorrect reference to Africa as a country on her flight. I'll bet they are fixing their PR patter accordingly.