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4. The Congolese Ivory Trade was the exploitation and abuses of the Congo region of Africa by King Leopold II of Belgium and the Belgian State during the late 1800s. King Leopold II, the monarch of Belgium at the time, is credited for modernizing the Belgium state, as well as for his atrocities and lies against the Congolese people. During the Berlin Conference, King Leopold convinced the U.S. as well as every major and important power in Europe to recognize the legitimacy of his claim to an…

King Leopold's Ghost provides the reader with the riveting true story of the reign of King Leopold the second of Belgium. King Leopold used many tricks and twisted stories to snatch up undocumented territory in africa before it was all gone. Many other notable figures were involved such as Henry Morton Stanley (John Rowlands), Edmund Dene Morel, Roger Casement, William Sheppard, George washington williams, and many others. King Leopold’s Ghost explores topics such as social class, manipulation,…

Maya Angelou, a renowned American poet once said ‘We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated’. Being a poet of African descent, she was able to manifest this in her poems by making a connection to Africa and its history. Similarly, David Diop, a contemporary of Angelou was of African descent but he was born and raised in France. Even so, he spent a significant amount of time in West Africa which helped him connect with his mother nation. His works were mainly on political…

argue that Conrad is exposing colonialism in his novel, one of those critics is H. S. Zins who claims that:" when Conrad was writing his anti–colonial and anti–imperial Heart of Darkness. In that African novella he described imperialism as robbery with violence" (1). This is true when he describes the Belgian colonization of Africa, but when he describes the British colonization he praises it and celebrating imperialism. Said in his book Culture and Imperialism states that: "Yet neither Conrad…

S. Zins who argues that:" when Conrad was writing his anti–colonial and anti–imperial Heart of Darkness. In that African novella he described imperialism as robbery with violence" (P. 1). This is true when he describes the Belgian colonization of Africa, but when he describes the British colonization he praises it and celebrating imperialism. Said in his book Culture and Imperialism states that:" Yet neither Conrad nor Marlow gives us a full view of what is outside the word…

Saving Mr. Ugwu is a novel by Lin Anderson written in 2012. The story is about Mr. Ugwu and his family, who live in the African bush, more specific in Nigeria which is a old British colony according to the internet. There is a clear racial division between the white and black race in Nigeria. As if this was not enough, there is also a division among the black race. We have the Hausas and the Igbo tribes. Mr. Ugwu and his family belongs to the Igbo tribe, while people such as his houseboy is a…

Darkness written by Joseph Conrad in 1899, which is set in the Congo, Africa in 1890. It is based on the narrator Charles Marlow travels to the Congo, in the heart of Africa to relieve a brilliant ivory trader named Krutz, who is working for the Belgium Government. Rudyard Kipling described Imperialism as the “White man’s burden” as in his writings he shows that European countries were travelling to help stabilize and grow the economy in countries that needed it. However, Conrad shows that…

Considered one of the greatest novelists in American literature and history, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is one of the most confusing yet most rendering novels. Conrad wrote this book with the inspiration after he sailed up the Congo River, a journey that provided much of the material for his most notable and highly regarded work Heart of Darkness. One of Conrad’s main focus is on the issues surrounding imperialism in the novel yet there is also a larger underlying issue of race and…

How “Civilized” is defined in Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness. Introduction Heart of darkness is an English novella written by Polish writer, Joseph Conrad, and was first published in 1902. The novella tells Charles Marlow’s journey through Africa where he worked as a riverboat pilot in the Congo. His longing dream was to go on an adventure, exploring the mysterious land of Africa. But during that time, Africa was in a state of conflict due to slavery that led to many violence and…

African knowing what it’s like to be at the short end of racism, Achebe did not appreciate the novel’s misrepresentation of his people calling Conrad a “thoroughgoing racist” (1789). While there is no denying that Achebe was right in pointing out the novel’s use of inaccurate stereotypes and reduction of natives to mere bestial caricatures, his condemnation of Conrad and his novel is deeply rooted in a personal grudge. Edward Said presents a much more objective argument treating Conrad’s…