Ten years ago, the award-winning Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gave a phenomenal TED talk called “The Danger of a Single Story.” The point we are to scoop from her story is that each life contains a heterogeneous compilation of stories. If you reduce people to one story, you’re taking away their humanity. Though her TED talk lasted for less than half an hour, her message is very central to the world we live in. For instance, I, a Tanzanian, come from a country that is more often than not characterized as among the “poorest countries in the world.” A place that lacks hope and promise and is usually epitomized by naked, malnourished little children waiting for a mzungu to adopt them or for the angel of death to collect their souls as flies and starving dogs circle their frailing bodies. This is what most foreigners know about Tanzania or... Read more →