Creased Potrait and the Defense of a Culture: Colonialist Joseph Conrad and Jingoistic African Poets
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Eugene Ngezem
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Although Africa is the origin of human race, the birth place for human civilization, a continent of fifty-three independent countries, covering twenty-three percent of the world’s land, and comprising about thirteen percent of the world’s population, it remains an obscure continent to many, even at the time when globalization, supposedly, is shrinking international space. In consonance with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, its culture, its people, and its land have been ignored, misconstrued, invaded or attacked. But, ingrained in the tenacity with which African poets defend and elevate Africa is the superseding purpose of immortalizing and asserting their culture, their people and their land against the overwhelming sway of western, and Oriental influences and prejudices.