Rhetorical Analysis Of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an African storyteller from Nigeria. She’s the author of many books such as the “purple Hibiscus, half of the yellow sun and Americana.” Giving her the standing ovation in the “New York notable Book and people, Black issues and National book critics circle award for fiction, and the Chicago tribune heartland prize for fiction. “ ( )Adichie gave a heart filled informative speech at the TedEx global conference in England, “The Danger of a Single story,” recorded to have reached 10,000,000 viewers; Adachi used a sophisticated type of pathos throughout her speech to convey the importance of stereotype. She connects with her audiences through the anecdote of her childhood which made “the danger of single story” more

“I’m a storyteller. And I would like to tell a few personal stories about what I like the call “The danger of the single story.” There Adichie makes a connection informing the audiences about her growing up in Nigeria, being a young reader where all she had read were British and English children’s book (00.28) so it’s not much of a surprise that the young African writer would start developing and writing stories about “white faced, blue-eyed who enjoyed the snow and ate apples” (00.38). Creating a space for the audience to find a sense of humor, Adichie continues on, “and they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out.” (01:05) letting people grasp at her cleverness, Adichie stresses the role of foreigners, and of how they were represented in books for a young Africans to identify with. There the sense of satisfaction began to settle in that “book by their nature had to have foreigners in them.” Here she takes the audience to a different place, although she’s in her beloved content, she still felt out of reach with African writers because of how foreigners were portrayed in literature but much later, her perspective began to change when she stumbled upon writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye. “ I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form a ponytail, could also exist in the literature.” Here Adichie paints a beautiful picture of manifestation to the audience that creates a sense of trust because she’s a living prove of it. Adichie extends her gratitude towards the American and British books [she] read. They stirred my imagination,(02:28) She claims in a sense that African writers saved her from a single story if what books