Words to add to vocabulary log from Adichie article/speech

Empower: being given the power to do something

Incomprehensible: something that cannot be understood

Dignity: having pride in oneself

Perspectives: different ways of looking at something

Dispossess: To deprive someone of something important that they own. 

Malign: To speak of someone badly.

Single Stories: a single view of a person or place

Definitive: The only one, the main one

Unaware: Not knowing

Stereotype: an oversimplified image of someone or thing

Commonalities: Things that people have in common

Humanize: To make someone seem more human.