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."
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。