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In a post-colonial reading, the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, famously criticized Heart of Darkness in his 1975 lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's " Heart of Darkness ", saying the novella de-humanized Africans, denied them language and culture and reduced them to a metaphorical extension of the dark and dangerous jungle into which the Europeans venture.
Achebe's lecture prompted a lively debate, reactions at the time ranged from dismay and outrage — Achebe recounted a Professor Emeritus from the University of Massachusetts saying to Achebe after the lecture, " How dare you upset everything we have taught, everything we teach?
"— to support for Achebe's view —" I now realize that I had never really read Heart of Darkness although I have taught it for years ," one professor told Achebe.
Other critiques include Hugh Curtler's Achebe on Conrad: Racism and Greatness in Heart of Darkness ( 1997 ).
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