Having an Open Mind

Let me just start by saying how much I love TED Talks, and Chimamanda Adichie's talk really made me change my perspective from everything that I've been shown through media about that country called Africa. Before her talk, Africa was what it was, which is a media haven where they can manipulate the rest of the world into having one common perception on this great continent through exploitation.

Adichie's TED Talk

After watching Adichie's talk, I am able to engulf myself in Things Fall Apart with an open mind to Africa and the different perspective of this place brought forth by the author  Chinua Achebe. In reading the first few chapters, I have become increasingly intrigued as to what Africa has kept hidden from the Western eye through the firsthand knowledge of a native African. Not some white guy getting paid thousands to go to the most impoverish areas to make a headlining story in the media.

Chinua Achebe

Adichie has given me a unbiased perspective on Africa, and subsequently, I now am thrilled and open to understanding the true Africa and what they really go through, whether it is good or bad. Already I see myself reading every word with a greater level of curiosity and intrigue to gain an enhanced, and more accurate, more rounded perspective on the continent in which, oh by the way, every human technically originated from.