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ee, At the age 19, she went to the United States, for, , university studies. Her American room mate was shocked, when she heard Adichie speaking English so well. She, had heard only a single story that Africans were illiterate., A professor once told her that her novel was not, ‘authentically African.’ The professor had heard only a, single story of poverty and illiteracy about Africa. Single, Story creates stereotypes. Stereotypes are not untrue, but, they are incomplete and dangerous. They rob people of, dignity. We are never too old to become culturally, awakened to regain that dignity.