Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
The ability to create closed mindedness, by only giving a people one idea or no access to any other truths.
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09:25It is impossible to talk about the single story without talking about power. There is a word, an Igbo word, that I think about whenever I think about the power structures of the world, and it is "nkali." It's a noun that loosely translates to "to be greater than another." Like our economic and political worlds, stories too are defined by the principle of nkali: How they are told, who tells them, when they're told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power.
The way stories become told and who accepts them stems from who has the power, she covers this later with Government oppression in Africa, but an idea can become just as easily accepted if it is forced or spoofed to the public by the elite and powerful, or simply because it is popular.
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