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"HEART OF DARKNESS " RACISM AND REACTION
Originally posted in 2015 In "But Nought .Blogspot" ONE OF THE MANY EDITIONS OF THE CLASSIC NOVEL An enduring classic of English literature is the novella "Heart Of Darkness" first published in serial form in 1899 in "Blackwood's Magazine" and then as a book in 1902. But the spotlight shone on it with greater intensity in February, 1975 when the then 45 years old Nigerian Author Chinua Achebe made it the subject of an important public lecture. Achebe was already renowned for his novels "THINGS FALL APART" (1958), "NO LONGER AT EASE" (1960) and ARROW OF GOD" (1964). At the administrative and communications level, he had been intensely active in the Biafran War (1967 -1970), in support of the effort to create Biafra out of the Igbo region of Nigeria. CHINUA ACHEBE THE MOST RENOWNED AFRICAN AUTHOR The lecture Achebe had been invited to give, was the prestigious Chancellor's Lecture at the University of Mass...
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