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The Danger of a Single Story

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977)

Adichie's TED talk arguing that reducing any people, place or culture to a single story dispossesses them of full humanity, and that many stories are needed to see the world honestly.

IdentityStereotypesCultural representationPower of stories

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Rights notice: © Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2009, reproduced in the anthology by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK). Quotations are short fair-dealing extracts under CDPA 1988 §30 (criticism, review, quotation). For full text, students should consult the anthology (ISBN 978-1-446-93108-0), which Pearson publishes free as a PDF, or the original TEDGlobal 2009 talk transcript.

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4EA1 Component 1 (Unit 1) Section A. All ten are compulsory.

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Source: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology, Issue 8, February 2026 (read 2026-09-19).

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