Africa's Tarnished Name
By: Chinua Achebe
4.40
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others…
Want to Read"Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day, we would have taken a truly millennial step forward."-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name
"People are wrong when they tell you that Conrad was on the side of Africans because his story showed great compassion towards them. Africans are not really served by his compassion, whatever it means; they ask for one thing alone – to be seen for what they are: human beings. Conrad pulls back from granting them this favour in Heart of Darkness."-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name
"The poor of the world may be guilty of this and that particular fault or foolishness, but if we are fair we will admit that nothing they have done or left undone quite explains all the odds we see stacked up against them. We are sometimes tempted to look upon the poor as so many ne'er-do-wells we can simply ignore. But they will return to haunt our peace, because they are greater than their badge of suffering, because they are human."-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name
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2. Africa's Tarnished Name
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