An Image of Africa
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"An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" is the published and amended version of the second Chancellor's Lecture given by Nigerian writer and academic Chinua Achebe at the University
Chinua Achebe in 1966
Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties –
An Image of Africa
…the consideration of the viewpoints of non-European nations, as well as peoples coping with the effects of colonialism. In the work, Achebe accuses Joseph Conrad of being "a thoroughgoing racist" for depicting Africa as "the other world". According to Achebe, Conrad refuses to bestow "human expression" on Africans…
Conrad's writer father, Apollo Korzeniowski
Nowy Świat 47, Warsaw, where three-year-old Conrad lived with his parents in 1861
Tadeusz Bobrowski, Conrad's maternal uncle, mentor, benefactor
Otago, the barque captained by Conrad in 1888 and first three months of 1889