Which excerpt is historical evidence that supports Achebe's claim about why Heart of Darkness is popular despite its racist elements?
O Travelers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves. But even those not blinkered, like Conrad, with
xenophobia, can be astonishingly blind."
O A few weeks later I received two very touching Intters from high school children in Yonkers, New York, who-bless their
teacher-had just read Things Fall Apart."
O "For did not that erudite British historian and Regius Professor at Oxford, Hugh Trevor Roper, also pronounce that African
history did not exist?
O "We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. We could have
fancied ourselves the first of men taking possession of an accursed inheritance."