Who Tells the True Story of YOUR Country? (Conversation Program)
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness in response to what he saw as a negative view of his people. In the book, an African character says only eight words and is not very well spoken or speaking nicely. A Chebe said that like this is not his experience of Africa at all. He started writing about it because Western literature was just not representing his culture.
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