The Dangers of a Single Story

A palm tree native to tropical Africa and Madagascar

• Raffia

• Palm Tree

• Malign

• Nollywood

To treat with an apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority

• Malign

• Dispossess

• Patronize

• Incomprehensible

Not able to be understood; not intelligible

• Incomprehensible

• Malign

• Fleece

• Abject

A person who buys and sells commodities for profit

• Sailor

• London Merchant

• Nollywood Actor

• Tourist

To strip of money or property by fraud or extortion

• Dispossess

• Fleece

• Abject

• Raffia

Sunk to or existing in a low state or condition

• Incomprehensible

• Stereotype

• Patronize

• Abject

To deprive someone of land, property, or other possessions

• Dispossess

• Patronize

• Abject

• Fleece

A common but often oversimplified idea about a group of people

• Patronize

• Innovative

• Raffia

• Stereotype

A term used to refer to the Nigerian film industry

• Hollywood

• Nigerian Film Industry

• Nollywood

• Bollywood

Tending to introduce new ideas; original and creative in thinking

• Incomprehensible

• Raffia

• Innovative

• Enlightening