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Chimamanda ADICHIE TED Global 2009 Worksheet
Chimamanda ADICHIE TED Global 2009 Worksheet
TED Global
2009
[1:43]
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[2:14]
realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate,
._______________ kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist
[2:35]
Now, I loved those American and British books I read. They stirred my
imagination. They 8.__________
unintended consequence was that I did not know that people like me
could exist in literature. So what the discovery of African writers did
for me was this: It saved me 9._______________ having a single story of
what books are.