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African Heart, No Darkness
North, James | July 10, 2000 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Home and Exile," by Chinua Achebe. Achebe's central purpose, advanced with passionate eloquence, is simple: to show how the West continues to insist on a view of Africa that is dark, negative and dehumanizing. The book opens with Achebe's warm reminiscences of his home village in Igboland. Then he moves on to colonial Nigeria's University of Ibadan, to an episode that informed his career as a fiction writer. In the book, Achebe continues looking into the Western need to deny humanity to Africans.

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HOME & Exile (Book); BOOKS & reading; ACHEBE, Chinua; CONDUCT of life; ETHNOLOGY -- Africa; AFRICA
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