She is a writer

The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie introduces, in her speech about the dangers of a single story, a very interesting point of view on something many historians and sociologists have mentioned many times so far: how there is always another side to the coin as regards histories. First she tells about her own experience as a child, when she read English and American fiction and started to write, as a consequence, stories that imitated them, with characters and places she had never seen. She felt her own life experience was not to be told in stories. Then, when she went to university in America, she was faced with something that surprised her at first: she was not what her roommate had expected. The other girl had read about Africa as a place with almost no civilization, full of poverty, grief and untouched cultures; a middle-class educated person like this was not what she expected. Later, she faced this same situation again when she visited Mexico: having lived for a while in America and being acquainted with the American point of view, she expected all mexicans to be people who were trying to cross the border and live illegally. She could not expect to find people who could live happily in a mexican city. All these experiences showed her that it is not enough to see things from one point of view, as this only helps to create stereotypes and these are incomplete visions that rob people of their dignity, emphasizing difference rather than equality. 

Source:
Chimamanda Adichie. The Danger of a single story (2009).Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg. Retrieved: May 26, 2013.