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Quotes from An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness — Chinua Achebe

1930–2013 Nigeria

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Conrad saw and condemned the evil of imperial exploitation but was strangely unaware of the racism on which it sharpened its iron tooth.

An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1975)

We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet.

An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1975)

A certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal to the end of my days.

An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1975)

It always surprised him, he went on to say, because he never had thought of Africa as having that kind of stuff, you know.

An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1975)

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