The Danger Of A Single Story By Chimamanda Adichie

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Throughout this assignment I learned several things from both the speech and the actual writing portion. While reading the speech “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Adichie, I realized that I had an incomplete story about Nigeria, the country in which is author is from. She informed us that English is Nigeria’s official language and that just as the United States has Hollywood, and India has Bollywood, Nigeria also has it own film industry known as Nollywood. I knew English was spoken in Nigeria however, I was not aware that English was it’s official language and I had never even heard about Nollywood. These two simple facts made me see similarities that the U.S. has with

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