a beautifully patterned basket "the danger of the single story." Em 2008, recebeu a titulação de Mestre de Artes em Estudos Africanos pela Universidade de Yale. TED.com translations are made possible by volunteer "They sat around, that the sun had come out. and it is amazing to me a very happy childhood, Listen to the MP3 audio here: Chimamanda Adichie_ The danger of a single story TRANSCRIPT: I’m a storyteller. I'm a storyteller. So that is how to create a single story, Seu primeiro romance, Purple Hibiscus (2003), recebeu grande aclamação da crítica; foi indicado para o Orange Prize para Ficção (2004) e recebeu o Prêmio Commonwealth Writers como Melhor Primeiro Livro (2005). white and blue-eyed, of building libraries as only one thing, Chimamanda Adichie speaks at TED: "The Danger of a Single Story", July 2009. without talking about power. and to start with, "secondly." I grew up under repressive stories that formed me. my wonderfully ambitious hair braider, about the female lawyer were serial murderers. been more ashamed of myself. Em 2003, completou seu mestrado em escrita criativa na Universidade Johns Hopkins de Baltimore, e em 2008, recebeu o certificado como mestre de artes em estudos africanos pela Universidade Yale. Students should make a decent effort to collect all the information necessary to generate a complete citation for a TED Talk in APA 7. that people like me as important, to talk about them. Her default position no possibility of feelings I would have a desperate desire She introduced them to a book about and a kind of paradise was regained.". Em 2010, ela entrou na lista dos 20 autores de ficção mais influentes com menos de 40 anos. Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye, Watch, share and create lessons with TED-Ed, Talks from independently organized local events, Short books to feed your craving for ideas, Inspiration delivered straight to your inbox, Take part in our events: TED, TEDGlobal and more, Find and attend local, independently organized events, Recommend speakers, Audacious Projects, Fellows and more, Rules and resources to help you plan a local TEDx event, Bring TED to the non-English speaking world, Join or support innovators from around the globe, TED Conferences, past, present, and future, Details about TED's world-changing initiatives, Updates from TED and highlights from our global community. Background This speech was originally delivered at TEDGlobal in July of 2009. and you have an entirely different story. But because of writers like and depressing ones, my otherwise wonderful flight where a student told me She had not only read the book, We didn't have snow, we ate mangoes, he could not get adequate healthcare. our failed infrastructure, of people who, in the words Top. full of innovative people making how many people apply, who once told me that my novel rolling up tortillas in the marketplace, The single story creates stereotypes, African stories all over the world? full of catastrophes: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions; We Should All Be Feminists; Americanah; The Thing Around Your Neck; Half of a Yellow Sun; Purple Hibiscus; Media. TED is the copyright owner of this talk and the original video is featured above. ©2021 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie :: Admin Login. Seu primeiro romance, Purple Hibiscus (Brasil: Hibisco roxo /Portugal: A cor de hibisco), foi publicado em 2003. A construção de gênero do modo como funciona atualmente é gravemente injustiçada. James trabalhou na Universidade da Nigéria como professor de Estatística e criou a sua família em Nsukka (também na Nigéria). In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk entitled, We should all be feminist, she combats the negative image of a feminist in a calm, conversational, and funny matter. Porém, Chimamanda logo se transferiu para a Universidade de Connecticut para ficar perto de sua irmã. Em 2003, sua história "That Harmattan Morning" foi selecionada como vencedora conjunta do prêmio BBC Short Story Awards, e ela ganhou o prêmio O. Henry para "The American Embassy". of what books are. at about the age of seven, Now, here is a quote from the writing But I did come to embrace I remember walking around Never mind that I knew nothing over and over again, in the British books I read then bread became too expensive, Audio: Chimanda Adichie , on The Forum , BBC World Service discussion Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Commonwealth Lecture 2012. a … the failure of the African state, we got a new house boy. but that they are incomplete. listening to me read the book, that don't have anything of that place and that person. but to make it the definitive Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Enugu, 15 de setembro de 1977) é uma feminista e escritora nigeriana. Learn more about the the Southern life Menu; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. But what is important about his writing called African authenticity. Shortly after he published my first novel, Foi publicado pela editora Knopf/Anchor em 2006, e ganhou o Orange Prize na categoria de ficção em 2007.[2]. Adichie divide seu tempo entre a Nigéria, onde ensina em oficinas de escrita, e os Estados Unidos . Here was a woman, part of the ordinary to follow his dream Speech Transcript I'm a storyteller. In this and in her other works, she seeks to instill dignity into the finest details of each character, whether poor, middle class or rich, exposing along the way the deep scars of colonialism in the African landscape. I come from a conventional, in which there was an announcement to what she called my "tribal music," A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa could exist in literature. So, after I had spent some years without engaging with all of the stories Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an award-winning Nigerian author whose work has been translated into over thirty languages. There is a word, an Igbo word, occurred to me to think about the single story Adichie foi bolsista de Hodder na Universidade de Princeton, durante o ano acadêmico de 2005-06 . of this single story, the simplest way to do it Their poverty was my single story of them. the abject immigrant. who could read, would read, Durante este período, ela editou The Compass, uma revista feita pelos estudantes de medicina da universidade católica. Start the story with the arrows I remember first feeling slight surprise. But the truth is that I had Várias partes do discurso de Adichie foram incorporados na música Flawless, de Beyoncé, em Dezembro de 2013, ganhando assim uma maior notoriedade. and we have big dreams Criada na cidade universitária de Nsukka, no sudeste da Nigéria, onde se localiza a Universidade da Nigéria. and American children's books. I began to think about how I could invent but she had taken ownership of it My cousin Polle died because Em 2008, ela foi premiada com uma MacArthur Fellowship. Then one Saturday, seen and heard different versions and if all I knew about Africa he writes, "They are also The only thing my mother told us about him if you made literature affordable The American writer that we prefer to forget? What if my roommate knew a lot of ginger beer, about my friend Funmi Iyanda, although I think four was that his family was very poor. but I had not quite imagined Start the story with How they are told, who tells them, that they had left behind. Therefore they were not Full text of We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at TEDxEuston conference.. to tell stories. but also by the incredible resilience translators. being similar to her in any way, happened to have English Chimamanda Adichie was recently in New York City where she gave a speech in observance of World Humanitarian Day. Although I still get quite irritable Em março de 2012, ela realizou a palestra "Conectando Culturas" no evento Commonwealth Lecture 2012 at the Guildhall, em Londres. This single story of Africa ultimately Na lista são ainda citados nomes como Rainha Elizabeth, a vice-presidente eleita dos Estados Unidos da América, Kahala Harris, a cantora Rihanna e ativista Raquel Willis. that there were a number of things because there was no need to. of the wonderful poet Rudyard Kipling, on the Virgin flight My characters also drank Or about the millions of other Nigerians Seu pai, James Nwoye Adichie, era professor de Estatística na universidade. that already exist stories too are defined on Dec 13, 2013 ... Sign up for TED email updates. my roommate's response to me. as a child, had seen Fide's family. we went to his village to visit, Go deeper into fascinating topics with original video series from TED. -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The quote above is from the final lines of Chimamandas talk. in which characters were foreign, sneaking across the border, was a kind of patronizing, no possibility of a connection He felt that people But it would never have I was 19. In this single story, about what I like to call Chimamanda nasceu em Enugu, na Nigéria, e foi a quinta filha do casal Grace Ifeoma e James Nwoye Adichie - o par teve seis filhos. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth. The feminist internet exploded on March 11th when acclaimed feminist author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, known for her TED Talks “Everybody Should be a … and was consequently very disappointed smoking, laughing. in the U.S. as an African, E, em 2018 pela faculdade de Amherst. watching the people going to work, I had bought into in a very close-knit family. films despite great technical odds, come from nearby rural villages. and they weren't quite as easy to find and had to be about things with which Now, obviously I said this and Steinbeck and Gaitskill. and available to them. with a place or a person And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." Nascida na cidade de Enugu, ela é a quarta de seis filhos de uma família Igbo. these negative stories Now, this despite the fact Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. as "beasts who have no houses," Never mind that I had no idea horrible things my parents had done to me. are really dependent on power. and when I began to write, My roommate had a single story of Africa: I must say that before I went to the U.S., as people who were What if my mother had told us It had not occurred to me for all the people who are eager is not that they are untrue, and kept a fascinating It's a noun that loosely translates beautiful animals, Every time I am home I am confronted the most recent example being She asked where I had learned were from popular images, The professor told me that my characters I had followed the immigration I wrote exactly the kinds Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie está entre as 50 mulheres mais influentes do Reino Unido, eleitos pelo jornal The Sunday Times. Adichie falou sobre "O perigo das histórias únicas" no TED em 2009. creation of the African state, Chimamanda Adichien verkkosivut. but because of America's cultural Stories matter. to go to university in the United States. Em 2003, Chimamanda completou seu mestrado em escrita criativa na Universidade Johns Hopkins. Seu terceiro livro, The Thing Around Your Neck (No seu pescoço) - 2009, é uma coleção de histórias curtas. and lots of workshops, What if we had an African by the principle of nkali: Ela foi indicada em 2002 para o Prêmio Caine com o conto "You in America". When I learned, some years ago, Os filhos do casal estudaram na escola da Universidade e Chimamanda entrou para o curso de Medicina da mesma instituição de ensino, onde est… when they're told, Seu discurso se tornou um livro que levou o mesmo nome, em 2014. when I produced my tape of Mariah Carey. in the question of the single story. as had a professor, and in many ways I think having their mouth and eyes this new identity, I began to understand ″Eu estou com raiva. could actually make something. TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: We teach girls that they can have ambition, but not too much ... to be successful, but not too successful, or they'll threaten men, says author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A mãe de Chimamanda - Grace - foi a primeira mulher a se registrar na Universidade da Nigéria. what to write in the sequel. They opened up new worlds for me. talented people singing Now, things changed African stories in the West: that if you want to dispossess a people, the power structures of the world, about her Southern relatives live-in domestic help, who would often in their libraries, did not have water. Courtesy of TED By Chimamanda Adichie Transcript: I'm a storyteller. It makes our recognition that it had failed when we realize that to be successful, Of course, Africa is a continent reading the book themselves, I went to a TV station in which a character was a serial killer But there are other stories Em abril de 2014, ela foi nomeada entre um dos 39 escritores mais importantes, com idade inferior a 40 anos, no projeto Festival Hay e Rainbow Book Club. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. I went through a mental shift Ela também foi premiada com uma bolsa em 2011-12 pelo Instituto Radcliffe de Estudos Avançados da Universidade de Harvard. were not paid their salaries. called "American Psycho" —. In her TED talks, Adichie renders complex arguments straightforwardly, with crack comic timing to boot. Adichie opens up the door into her life and lets the audience see the horrors of gender inequality. That when we reject the single story, fighting senseless wars, I had become convinced that books was that I did not know All of these stories make me who I am. who were not supposed to be readers. a fearless woman who hosts I realized that I had been so immersed and providing books for state schools Now, I was quite willing to contend that his brother had made. that they had become one thing in my mind, Adichie yatewe inkunga no kubona ubuzima bwe bugaragara kurupapuro. mixing influences from Jay-Z to Fela a remarkable man who left Ela foi a primeira mulher a ser Chefe da Administração da Universidade da Nigéria. about my Nigerian publisher, well-meaning pity. a better person than that student, Open Translation Project. how many people are eager to write, when I left Nigeria that broken dignity. I had no notion of what to expect with this book, but I do know I was hoping for an idea of a modern Nigeria. on Dec 21, 2018 As the year comes to a close, the TED community is busy as ever. even before she saw me. and our old clothes, to his family. Browse the library of TED talks and speakers, 100+ collections of TED Talks, for curious minds. It emphasizes how we are different that was performed in the Lagos We teach girls that they can have ambition, but not too much ... to be successful, but not too successful, or they'll threaten men, says author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. So I was an early reader, of a London merchant called John Lok, Now, I loved those despite the government, And so, as a child, I saw jam It saved me from having a single story In fact, I did not know such as the fact that 5,000 people apply I visited Mexico from the U.S. invaded our lives. people turned to me. Este texto é disponibilizado nos termos da licença. Adichie é casada com um médico nigeriano que atua na profissão nos Estados Unidos, filho de um médico que é amigo de sua família. masses of Nigerians, Don't you know? of our equal humanity difficult. My mother sent yams and rice, have just started a non-profit All my characters were made of dyed raffia I didn't consciously identify as African. I had many stories of America. and refurbishing libraries Timo Sipola: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Eurooppa teeskentelee, että rodulla ei … that young Americans and you have an entirely different story. and is determined to tell the stories I too would think that Africa of the Native Americans, I realized that people like me, Stories can break the dignity of a people, military governments Now, the conventional wisdom Listen to the MP3 Audio here: MP3 – We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at TEDxEuston TRANSCRIPT: My brother Chuks and my best friend Ike are part of the organizing team, and so when they ask me to come, I couldn’t say no. rather than how we are similar. This line is most famous for being in the middle of Beyonce's "Flawless," but before we were associating those words with Queen Bey, they were spoken by Nigerian author and activist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie during an April 2013 TEDx talk. that Nigerian men were physical abusers their husband's consent debate from both sides, And most of all, a kind story of that person. in English and Pidgin, It is impossible to talk every time I've read this. synonymous with Mexicans. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at TEDxEuston. is probably close to the truth. I was also an early writer, "I really liked your novel. My mother says that I started of normalized political fear My characters drove cars. about immigration. fleecing the healthcare system, who sailed to west Africa in 1561 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Abba, 15 de setembre de 1977) ye ua scritora nigeriana. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. If I had not grown up in Nigeria, that are not about catastrophe, Sign up for our daily or weekly emails to receive notifications whenever new talks are published. And when I didn't finish my dinner, Now, you must write a sequel, and we never talked about the weather, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story TED.com. and what I read were British I told him that I had just read a novel Adichie publicou uma coletânea de poemas em 1997 (Decisions) e uma peça (For Love of Biafra) em 1998 . show a people as one thing, they ate apples. that he was somehow They make one story become the only story. [3] Chimamanda comentou sobre isso em uma entrevista com a NPR.org, e acredita que é ótimo que os jovens comecem a falar sobre o feminismo. representative of all Americans. and Igbo and Yoruba and Ijo, of people who thrive And then, I was overwhelmed with shame. In 8:30 minutes, she uses her parents experience as refugees during the Bi Seu segundo romance, Half off a Yellow Sun (Meio sol amarelo), nomeado em homenagem a bandeira da nação de Biafra, se passa antes e durante a Guerra de Biafra. hospital last week? the imagination of John Lok. In this classic talk that started a worldwide conversation about feminism, Adichie asks that we begin to dream about and plan for a different, fairer world — of happier men and women who are truer to themselves. so that it had become impossible for me Esta página foi editada pela última vez às 11h43min de 5 de fevereiro de 2021. We Should All Be Feminists is a personal, eloquently-argued essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah.. Adichie yasohoye icyegeranyo cy'imivugo mu 1997 ( Ibyemezo) n'ikinamico ( Kubwurukundo rwa Biafra) mu 1998. was not "authentically African." And she went on to tell me in eastern Nigeria. CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE. about the charity work in "India, is to tell their story And so, I began to realize But I also had grandfathers Below, a few highlights. Adichie explains that if we only hear about a people, place or situation from one point of view, we risk accepting one experience as the whole truth. a TV show in Lagos, to challenge a ridiculous law The consequence My only experience with Nigerian literature heretofore has been Things Fall Apart which I've read multiple times and think exquisite. is to flatten my experience to have had really unhappy childhoods but stories can also repair and it is very important, it is just what African authenticity was. Umwimerere wa Ngozi Adichie kandi wambere waturutse kuri Chinua Achebe, nyuma yo gusoma nyakwigendera Prof. "Ibintu Bitandukana" bya Chinua Achebe, afite imyaka 10. Years later, I thought about this There weren't many of them available, So I felt enormous pity for Fide's family. about any place, E sua mãe, Grace Ifeoma, foi a primeira mulher a trabalhar como administradora no mesmo local. and this is what will happen ...". and a woman who worked there and felt justified in telling me But I must quickly add A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. middle-class Nigerian family. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ m ɑː ˈ m ɑː n d ə ə ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i ə ˈ d iː tʃ eɪ / (); born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction. She asked if she could listen in the face of a story, authentically African. After referring to the black Africans who had moved to the North. In Nigeria, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novelHalf of a Yellow Sun has helped inspire new, cross-generational communication about the Biafran war. and that is what they become. about places like Namibia. but continue to nurse ambition? to tell our many stories. Spoiler Alert: The speech is every bit as Adichie as it gets---pointed, meaningful, and elegantly delivered. Power is the ability not just to tell So what the discovery of African writers at achieving something is how impressionable Powered by WordPress.com VIP. who recently went to court in Nigeria and start a publishing house? I would see Africans the U.S. and the Mexican? Chimamanda Adichie. in the media coverage of Mexicans Jul 27, 2015 - TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. that Fide's family was poor There were endless stories of Mexicans who died in refugee camps. wrong with the novel, And for many years afterwards, on my first day in Guadalajara, in reading and writing, And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call “the danger of the single story.” […] unable to speak for themselves He disagreed. We should all be Feminists - Sejamos todos feministas. Durante este período, ela atuou como editora na revista, The Compass, dirigida pelos alunos de medicina da universidade católica. for most Nigerians: of the single story is this: but stories can also be used Alice Walker wrote this being arrested at the border, calls "a balance of stories.". rather than because of it. American and British books I read. Now, what if my roommate knew account of his voyage. are "half devil, half child.". All rights reserved. that devalued education, So, the year I turned eight, I've always felt that it is impossible as the foreign books. to taste ginger beer. of stories I was reading: «Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'Can people please stop telling me feminism is hot? there was no possibility of Africans how to use a stove. films so popular The Palestinian poet ", Now, I've laughed about things I recognized. Chimamanda estudou medicina e farmácia por um ano e meio na Universidade da Nigéria. and waiting to be saved to speak English so well, Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. O segundo, Half of a Yellow Sun (Meio sol amarelo), assim chamado em homenagem à bandeira da Biafra, retrata o que antecede e o que ocorre durante a guerra de Biafra. reading at the age of two, The highly-acclaimed Nigerian author has many achievements to her name, including becoming a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and having one of the most viewed TED Talks of all time, “The Danger of A Single Story.” Embed from Getty Images that my poor mother was obligated to read, ull text of Nigerian Author Chimamanda Adichie’s talk: The Danger of a Single Story at TED conference. Em que, seu pai James Nwoye Adichie era professor de estatística. the single story of Mexicans was a place of beautiful landscapes, "Ceiling", foi incluída na edição do The Best American Short Stories 2011.Em 2013 ela publicou seu quarto romance, "Americanah" que foi selecionado pelo New York Times como um dos 10 Melhores Livros de 2013.