—Quote 2 ‘I look forward very much to a time when magazines and newspapers will stop publishing a certain kind of photograph. A photograph of starving or sick children as a back drop. It is not only a cliche; you know the person usual famous, usually a westerner in the midst of hollow eyed starving children, but it is dehumanising to the children. Surely we can do acts of kind charity….. without making a fetish of our own moral goodness by taking photographs surrounded by starving children who have no say. Surely can help people by leaving them with their basic human dignity intact.’
One of the most applauded new voices in fiction, Nigerian writer and Orange Prize-winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie presented the 2009 Opening Address entitled The Danger of a Single Story.
Recorded live at the Sydney Theatre on Wednesday, May 20 2009.
Here is the link, jump 4 minutes in, as the main speech begins approximately 4 minutes into the recording. A really fine address with more more to reward the listener.
