english: But what is important about his writing is that it represents the beginning of a tradition of telling African stories in the West: A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives, of difference, of darkness, of people who, in the words of the wonderful poet Rudyard Kipling, are "half devil, half child."
non_english: Ali ono što je važno u vezi sa ovim, jeste da to predstavlja početak tradicije zapadnjačkog pričanja afričkih priča. Tradiciju sub-saharske Afrike kao negativnog mesta, različitog, mračnog, sa ljudima koji, po rečima divnog pesnika, Radjarda Kiplinga, su "pola đavo, pola dete".