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Journal Article
African \Authenticity\ and the Biafran Experience
2008
Overview
All my characters were white and had blue eyes and played in the snow and ate apples and had dogs called Socks. Okonkwo and Ezinma and Ikemefuna taught me that my world was worthy of literature, that books could also have people like me in them. Racism, the idea of the black race as inferior to the white race, and even the construction of race itself as a biological and social reality, was of course used by Western Europeans to justify slavery and later to justify colonialism. Even the more serious books which I read later, those with well-meaning intentions, such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902)-essentially about the evils of colonialism-did not have a single African character portrayed as fully human.
