The danger of a single storyIm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call the danger of the single story. I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth. So I was an early reader, and what I read were British and American childrens books. 0:38 I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven,
