After listing many facts and giving many anecdotes, Dr. Adichie does a good job of reminding her audience of both what she means by and her point about "the single story". She highlights the danger of a closed-off perception while keeping the audience both engaged and feeling trustworthy of her point. However, she does go through a lot of content quite quickly, and by reminding the audience of her focus to her speech regarding "a single story," they are guided in understanding how all the content connects to her point.

Doctor Adichie thoroughly connects the western public's current reasoning for having incorrect ideas about African individuals as being miseducated rather than racist (at least their reasoning for holding such ideas at this point in time). She creates a situational irony that allows a chuckle from the audience and in doing so establishes trust with her words (specifically with pathos). The situational irony is that the western public has been taught the idea that African individuals are oftentimes uneducated and therefore in lesser living conditions, when indeed, there is a clear lack of education to the western public that shows them the truth. So, when saying lines that reveal such clearly wrong ideas that many western people hold, such as Africa being a country, she strengthens the meaning behind her point of people being miseducated in the western world.

Her mentioning again the fact she is African reminds the audience of the connection to a miseducated public regarding ethnicity. Dr. Adichie also uses syntax when placing the phrase "as an African" in the middle of the sentence, to further emphasize the connection to race of her roommate's biased views of her.