"It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see……" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context."
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111 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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