But what is important about his writing is that it represents the beginning of a tradition of telling African stories in the West: A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives, of difference, of darkness, of people who, in the words of the wonderful poet Rudyard Kipling, are "half devil, half child."
Pero o que importa dos seus escritos é que representa o comezo da tradición de contar historias africanas en occidente. A tradición de identificar á África subsahariana como un lugar de negacións, de diferenzas, de escuridade, de xente que, en palabras do marabilloso poeta Rudyard Kipling son "metade diaños, metade nenos".