![]() The cruelties of this trade gradually began to trouble many people in Europe. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. It was really a straightforward case of setting us up, as it were. In Home and Exile, you talk about the negative ways in which British authors such as Joseph Conrad and Joyce Cary portrayed Africans over the centuries. In his interview with Bacon in 2000, Achebe himself succinctly and beautifully captured what his most indelible contribution to literature would be. ![]() ![]() But Things Fall Apart and its author will likely be remembered chiefly for giving a voice to the many generations of African people whose narrative power had been reduced to mere broken sentences of dialogue within the literary traditions of the West-even a single broken sentence, as in the case of Joseph Conrad's famous book about African colonization, Heart of Darkness. ![]()
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