The danger of a single story creates othering. Othering is creating difference viewing of others as primitives. Europeans sent anthropologists to study indigenous groups in Africa. They called these indigenous groups as primitives societies. They immersed themselves within societies and gain access to insider valuable information. They called them Primitive societies because they are not modernized still using their traditional norms and they do not have all resources. They called themselves as civilized society because they see themselves more advance than primitive societies and they have all resources.

When anthropologists arrived in African Societies and saw that they are not doing and living the way they do. Wainaina's said that western writes usually focus on certain themes such as war, poverty and exotic wildlife while ignoring the diversity and complexity of African Societies. Chimamanda Ngozi discussed " The danger of a single story" in her TedTalk. When she went to Oversee to study there, her roommate was a white person. Her roommate was shocked that she was able to use things such as iron for her clothes and knows how to speak English fluently. It shows that after anthropologists gathered information about indigenous groups they painted them as Primitive societies who needs to be taught about certain things as they are stuck in their traditional ways and need to be rescued from themselves.

The anthropologists had created danger as they have painted a certain image to every indivis about other people . As they use books to create image about us makes it easier for individuals to believe what is wrote in these books as they are the ones that travel the world to gather information about other indigenous groups and write them down. Books are the powerful tool use to paint image to individual's mind.