An Image of Africa- Chinua Achebe

“An Image of Africa” by Chinua Achebe is an article that is critiquing and analyzing “Heart of Darkness”. It took me a little while to actually pick it up and read it because I knew the author wrote “Things Fall Apart”, which is a book that I did not particularly like. However once I started to read it, Achebe makes it pretty obvious that he thinks Conrad was racist by his comments about the natives and how white people were superior. He calls the natives savages, refers them to animals like dogs, talks about how dark they are, and uses the “n” word. Achebe does not think this story is a “work of art” because of its dehumanization of Kurtz and Europe. Also, Achebe says how some of Conrad’s facts/location stuff is wrong in the book. He says how the Congo was unexplored and unharmed by Europe. Achebe thinks that Conrad is a good writer, but he just has wrong/misleading info and shows racism.