WATCH
AND LISTEN TO "THE DANGER OF A SINGLE STORY" AND
ANSWER
THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
2. Where is she from? (0:11)
3.What age did she start
reading? (0:11)
4.What age did she begin to
write? (0:38)
5.What were her characters like?
(0:38)
6.What fruit do they usually eat
in her country? ( 0:38)
7. What kind of literature did.she
use to read? (1:43)
8. What was her father’s job? (2:58)
9. . How old was she when she went
to university? (4.18)
10. Why was her roommate shocked?
(4.20)
11. What image of Africa do
Americans have? (5:55)
12. Where does the single story of Africa
ultimately come from? (6:30
13. Rudyard Kipling wrote that Africans were
_________________________ (7:04)
14. Why did Chamamanda’s professor say her characters
were not “authentically African”? (7:31)
15.Which country did she visit from the USA?
(8.29)
16. Why did she feel ashamed when she visited
that country? (8:53)
