This TED Talk features writer and activist Sasanke Misamak, recorded live at TED Women 2016.

So earlier this year, I was informed that I would be doing a TED talk.

So I was excited, then I panicked.

Then I was excited, then I panicked.

And in between the excitement and the panicking, I started to do my research.

And my research primarily consisted of Googling how to give a great TED talk.

And interspersed with that, I was Googling Chimamanda and Gosei Adichie.

How many of you know who that is?

So I was Googling her because I always Google her because I'm just a fan.

But also because she always has important and interesting things to say.

And the combination of those searches kept leading. but also because she always has important and interesting things to say.

And the combination of those searches kept leading me to her talk on the dangers of a single story,

on what happens when we have a solitary lens through which to understand certain groups of people.

And it is the perfect talk.

It's the talk that I would have given if I had been famous first.

You know, and you know, like, she's African and I'm African,

and she's a feminist, and I'm a feminist, and she's a storyteller, and I'm a storyteller.

So I really felt like it's my talk.

So I decided that I was going to learn how to code,

and then I was going to hack the Internet,

and I would take down all the copies of that talk that existed,

and then I would memorize it,

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