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Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie (author of “Half of a Yellow Sun”) gave a great TEDTalks speech about how stereotypes are born. Basically, she cautions that if we only hear a single story about a group of people, we come to think of them only in that context and can not imagine them as anything else. I Continue Reading

So I squandered the better part of my weekend reading “Half of a Yellow Sun” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I simply couldn’t put it down until I had read all 500+ pages. It was that good. The book is about many things: love, lust, family relationships, post-colonialism, racism, tribalism, and lots more. The story is Continue Reading