![]() ![]() In our view, Conrad’s book is seen as a work which brings out the beauty of the African natural settings and the evil behavior of intruding Europeans searching for ivory. The researchers analyze the lecture, bringing out its strengths and weaknesses and making an independent synthetic view of it. ![]() ![]() This caused controversy, right from the venue of the lecture, where some western professors refused to support Achebe’s views. In the Chancellor's Lecture at Amherst on 18 February 1975, titled An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", Chinua Achebe saw Joseph Conrad as “a thoroughgoing racist”, Achebe asserts that Conrad's famous novel (published in 1902) dehumanizes Africans, rendering Africa as “a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity, into which the wandering European enters at his peril”. ![]()
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