每日一句：You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. 

Martin Luther King Jr

演講名稱：The danger of a single story

演講者：Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 I would see Africans in the same way that I, as a child, had seen Fide's family.

06:23

This single story of Africa ultimately comes, I think, from Western literature. Now, here is a quote from the writing of a London merchant called John Lok, who sailed to west Africa in 1561 and kept a fascinating account of his voyage. After referring to the black Africans as "beasts who have no houses," he writes, "They are also people without heads, having their mouth and eyes in their breasts."

06:53

Now, I've laughed every time I've read this. And one must admire the imagination of John Lok.But what is important about his writing is that it represents the beginning of a tradition of telling African stories in the West: A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives, of difference, of darkness, of people who, in the words of the wonderful poet Rudyard Kipling,are "half devil, half child."

07:20

And so, I began to realize that my American roommate must have throughout her life seen and heard different versions of this single story,