جائزة بوكـر تعـرَج طائـعة على مـرابع شـيخ الـروائيين الافـارقـة أتشيبي ..

Quote: His treatise of literary criticism, An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", has become one of the most influential, controversial, widely studied and debated essays of its kind in classrooms around the world. Decrying Joseph Conrad as "a thoroughgoing racist", Achebe asserts that Conrad's famous novel dehumanizes Africans, rendering Africa as "a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity, into which the wandering European enters at his peril."[