Adichie, “The Headstrong Historian” & "The dangers of a single story"

Who is Kisa

The oricle

Whos is Ayaju

A woman from slave decent

Whos is Nwamba

The main character

What was Nwamba first son name

Anikenwa

Who killed Nwamba husband and how

The cousins with Medicine

What was the first instance that made Nwamba decide to let her son go to the white school

When the cousins took over a large piece of land and told the elders that they were farming it for her, a woman who had emasculated their dead brother and now refused to remarry.

What was the second instance that made Nwamba decide to let her son go to the white school

When Ayaju told a story of two people who had taken a land case to the white men’s court; the first man was lying but could speak the white men’s language, while the second man, the rightful owner of the land, could not, and so he lost his case, was beaten and locked up

What was the third instance that made Nwamba decide to let her son go to the white school

The story of the boy Iroegbunam, who had gone missing many years ago and then suddenly reappeared, a grown man, his widowed mother mute with shock at his story: a neighbor, whom his father had often shouted down at Age Grade meetings, had abducted him when his mother was at the market and taken him to the Aro slave dealers. However He was bought by a white man the frees slaves and got taken to live with him and trained to be a Christian missionary.

Why did Nwamba want her son to go the the white school

To learn how to speak English and to go to the white men’s court with Obierika’s cousins and defeat them and take control of what was his.

In Nwamba clan what did men do and women do that was so different from what the white ppl were doing

Men sew and woman did pottery

What did Father Shanahan tell Nwamba about her sons name

that Anikwenwa would have to take an English name, because it was not possible to be baptized with a heathen name

What was the english name of Nwamba son

Michael

Where is Nwamba son want to go and do that upset her so much

He wanted to go to Lagos to learn how to be a teacher

Why was Nwamba son wife beat and left at a grove by women

Because she refused to remove her clothes because she was a Christian. The women of the clan were outraged that she had dared to disrespect their goddess and beat her and dumped her at the grove.

Why did Nwamba pray for a grandson

Because she believed it would be her late husband reincarnated and brought back to life & bring since back into her world

How many miscarriges did Nwamba daughter in law (sons wife) have

3

What was the Nwamba call her grandson

Nnamdi (his name is Peter)

True or False: Nwamba grandson was her late husband

False

True or False: Nwamba granddaughter was her late husband

True (ish)

What did Nwamba call her granddaughter

Afamefuna (her name is Grace)

What book did Grace write

Pacifying with Bullets: A Reclaimed History of Southern Nigeria

Why did Grace divorce her husband

because she woke up sweating one night and realized that she would strangle George to death if she had to listen to one more rapturous monologue about his Cambrige days

True or False: Grace changed her name to Afamefuna

True

In Adichie TED: When was it recorded

2009

In Adichie TED: What did the she realize about her drawings and storys

they were exactly like the ones she was reading: they reflected British Culture rather then Nigerian

In Adichie TED: what does “Nkali” mean?

The be greater then another

In Adichie TED: What is power

to tell the story about a person and make it that sold depiction of that person

In Adichie TED: a single story does what?

Rob people of dignity

In Adichie TED: when we reject the single story we…

regain a kinda paradise