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In her speech Adichie says, “All these stories make me who I am.”Listen to her speech on www.TED.com and pick out the instances of personal stories from it.One instance is given for you.The story of her childhood when she started reading the age of 4 and writing when she was 7.……………………………………………………………… |
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Answer» Her reading of foreign books, especially American and British. Her reading of Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye. The coming of Fide as the houseboy when she was 8. Her mother telling her how poor Fide’s family is. Her visit to the village of Fide. Her going to the USA when she was 19. Her experiences with her roommate. The comment about her characters by a professor who felt that her characters were not authentically African. The tragedies she experienced – grandparents dying in refugee camps, her cousin Polle dying because of the lack of proper healthcare, her friend Okoloma dying in a plane crash as the fire trucks had no water and how the repressive military governments, which did not give priority to education, did not sometimes even pay salaries to her parents. |
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