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Heart of Darkness influenced The African Trilogy
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The evidence
Chinua Achebe said he wrote Things Fall Apart, the first book of the trilogy, to answer European novels that showed Africans without history or voice, and in his 1975 lecture An Image of Africa he named Heart of Darkness as the archetype of that picture. The claim is about Things Fall Apart.
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