The Danger of a Single Story Glossary

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Danger of a Single Story Glossary

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Impressionable

Easily influenced or shaped.

Catastrophe

A major disaster.

Patronizing

Condescendingly kind.

Stereotypes

Oversimplified generalizations

Resilience

Ability to recover quickly

Marginalized

Excluded or ignored

Dispossess

To deprive of possessions

Sub-Saharan

Below the Sahara Desert

Repressive

Oppressive

Igbo

An ethnic group in Nigeria

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