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'We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth... We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember... We were travelling in the night of first ages.' Africans as prehistoric Others.
Read in Books4Free →Famously Controversial Passages (Achebe Debate)
From Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Passages describing Africans in dehumanizing terms became the focus of Chinua Achebe's 1975 essay 'An Image of Africa,' which called Conrad 'a thoroughgoing racist.'
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They howled and leaped and spun and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity—like yours—the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar.Read in Books4Free →
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The fireman: 'He was an improved specimen... a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind legs.' Cited by Achebe as evidence of dehumanization.
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