Chinua Achebe argued that this work promoted racism in his essay "An Image of Africa".
Chinua Achebe argued that this work promoted racism in his essay "An Image of Africa". This story's narrator recounts his boyhood fascination with the blank spaces on a map, and gets a job as a captain when Fresleven (*) is killed by a spear. The narrator's discovery of a Report on the Suppression of Savage Customs ending with the sentence, "exterminate all the brutes," foreshadows the descent into primitivism of an ivory trader, whose final words are "the horror, the horror!" FTP, name this work about Marlow's journey up the Congo River to bring back Kurtz, a novella by Joseph Conrad.
Chinua Achebe argued that this work promoted racism in his essay "An Image of Africa".
{Heart of Darkness}