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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Born: Nov 16, 1930
Died: Mar 21, 2013

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