Post on 17-Dec-2015
‘An experiment to see whether an online video could make an obscure
warlord infamous’
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not [only] that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They
make one story become the only story.
Chimamanda Adichie, 2009
Malala Yousafzai
‘She was an ordinary girl…’
• Adolescent living in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan
• Attended her father’s private high school for girls
• Blogged about Taliban control of Swat Valley in 2009, especially the order to close all of the schools
‘…but on camera, extraordinary’
• Time Magazine’s 2013 list of 100 most influential people in the world
• UN Special Envoy for Education (Gordon Brown), leading activities for Malala Day
‘We are all Malala’
• In Pakistan: 5.1 million children are out of school—the second-highest number in the world—and two-thirds of them are girls
• In the world: Girls make up more than 70% of the 125 children in the world, who have no school to attend
‘She paid a terrible price, but the price she paid may have awoken the world
in a way that nothing else has’
Malala DayJuly 12th 2013
Activities planned in:London, New York, Paris…
…a village, town or city near you?