# An Image of Africa

- Author: [Chinua Achebe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/an-image-of-africa

## Quotes

> The earth seemed unearthly.

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> The real question is the dehumanization of Africa and Africans which this age-long attitude has fostered and continues to foster in the world. And the question is whether a novel which celebrates this dehumanization, which depersonalizes a portion of the human race, can be called a great work of art.

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> A certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal to the end of my days.

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> We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet.

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> It always surprised him, he went on to say, because he never had thought of Africa as having that kind of stuff, you know.

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> Conrad saw and condemned the evil of imperial exploitation but was strangely unaware of the racism on which it sharpened its iron tooth.

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> A Conrad student informed me in Scotland that Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz. Which is partly the point. Africa as setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity, into which the wandering European enters at his peril.

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