"the danger of the single story" - juxtaposition, repetition, continuary
I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria - shehadaneducation
although I think four is probably close to the truth - ethos (sentiment)
my poor mother was obligated to read - pathos (emotion)
all my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out - thenormofchildren'sbooks, listing
I had never been outside Nigeria - short sentence
we ate mangoes - she had food
impressionable, vulnerable - symbol of danger, emotive language
I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify - disengagement
Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye - ethos: credibility
I went through a mental shift in my perception of literature - change of view
could also exist in literature. I started to write about things I recognised - change of view, sense of hope
I loved those American and British books I read - complementary
stirred my imagination - metaphor
opened up new worlds - metaphor
unintended - language choice: empathetic tone
My father was a professor. My mother was an administrator - short sentence
conventional, middle-class Nigerian family - they weren't poor
norm - informal
His name was Fide - short sentence
Finish your food! - exclamatory: pathos
Don't you know? - rhetorical
People like Fide's family have nothing - pathos
Then one Saturday - time expressions
we went to his village to visit - short sentence
I was startled - short sentence
Their poverty was my single story of them - critiques herself
Years later - time expression
I left Nigeria to go to university in the United States - she had money
I was 19 - short sentence
"tribal music" - racist humour
Mariah Carey - contrast
She assumed that I did not know how to use a stove - 1 sentence paragraph: emphasis
she had felt sorry for me even before she saw me - systemic racism
a single story of Africa - parallel structure
a single story of catastrophe - parallel structure
waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner - exclamatory for emphasis
that I, as a child, had seen Fide's family - draws parallels: empathetic tone