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How Fiction Can Change The World

Stereotypes make one story become the only story, and that’s a problem. Author Chimamanda Adichie talks about how knowing only one story — about a people, or a place, or a culture — means not really knowing the world.At :45, Adichie tells us how Western stories affected her writing; at 5:40, she talks about why…

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