translation.en: 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."
translation.zh: 但关于他这段作品极其重要的一点是 它昭示着西方社会讲述非洲故事 的一个传统。 在这个传统中，撒哈拉以南的非洲充满了消极、 差异以及黑暗， 是伟大的诗人Rudyard Kipling笔下 所形容的“半恶魔、半孩童” 的奇异人种。