Chimamanda Adichie is a black Nigerian woman who learned the power of only having one view on things. Only having one view can be damaging for the person and also volunteer ignorance. Adichie grew up in a university campus in eastern Nigeria, reading British and American books from the time she knew how to sound out words thinking that was the way of life. See, what Adichie didn’t know was that people who look like her skin tone, hair texture, etc were worthy of a story. Adichie’s first lesson of learning takes more than one story to learn the full story, she was eight years old, her family just got a new house boy named Fide. Adichie’s parents only told her that Fide is poor, No less no more. Adichie felt like that was all to him, but going to his village one day. She learned that Fide being poor was the only story her parents knew and told her but it was more to Fide than being poor. Adichie ended up moving to America for college, and learned that she was also a part of a single story. Her roommate opens her eyes to what someone can see just by judging by the cover. Adichie realized she also was seeing Mexico from one side. She saw the debates and immigrants on the news but she only knew the story the Americans knew. But when she traveled to Mexico, she learned it was more than the story America was promoting. She gotta see it for herself, first hand. It takes more than one story to explain the full story.
I can understand and relate to Adichie, thats the story of my life. But I love seeing the eyes through the person I’m talking to. But I had to learn from my story being told one sided that I cant be one sided to the life.
