1.

1 Follow-up #2
Name ___________________________________________________ No. _______ Class: _________ Date ___________

SINGLE STORY

Video at
1. Watch the video and complete the text with the missing information.
Chimamanda grew up in a. _____________________.
According to her mother, she started reading at the age of
b. ______________________. As a child, she used to read
c. ______________________. She began to write at the age
of d. ______________________. The characters in her early
writings were e. ______________________. they played in
the f. _________________, they ate g. __________________
and drank h. __________________.
Her father was a i. _____________________ and her mother was a j. ______________________.
She left Nigeria at the age of k. ______________________. to l. ______________________.

2. Now match the sentences according to the information.

a. Chimamanda’s roommate at university
assumed that she
b. Before Chimamanda went to America, she
c. People in the US see Africa as she
d. The American single story of Africa implies
e. Chimamanda’s professor told her her book
lacked
f. Besides creating stereotypes, the danger
of a single story is to
• • 1. African authenticity.
• • 2. negativity, difference and darkness.
3. wasn’t familiar with the American
• •
culture.
• • 4. emphasise difference.
• • 5. didn’t consciously identify as African.
6. had seen Fide’s story as a child: a
• •
single story.

3. What type of achievements do we learn about in Nigerian society?

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