There are many types of single stories in our daily lives. We hear from people all the time their own perspective on certain issues. And those are all categorized as a single story. People usually cal, these kinds of stories stereotypical from someone’s perspective. In the TED talk, she talked a lot about how white people view Africans singularly in point of view rather than from both white and African perspective.
However, I think that she is also talking from her perspective, which is a single story, of what she understood to be from white’s perspective and African perspective. She recognizes that there are different kinds of white perspectives on Africans and the African regions, but like what she said, she doesn’t and couldn’t represent all African regions. There are certain places maybe where people take a very different perspective because for every individual there is a different single story.
After analyzing her definition of a single story, there should be a discussion of how could we avoid the single story. From my point of view, which is a single story, there are no ways to avoid single stories. There is only a way to gather all kinds of single stories and combine them together like what she did in the TED talk, to tell the entire story.