Exterminate All the Brutes the Essay

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European entry into Africa is associated with explorers and missionaries. These were people that aimed to improve Africa and the Native groups living in it. However, the reason that the missionaries and explorers set foot as the first group in Africa was to introduce the very deceitful idea that Europe was interested in making life better for these people who knew nothing of civilization. The politics that later set in from the late eighteenth century going forward, clearly expose the foundations of genocide in this continent that was before that full of culture and life. Of importance to note is that the extermination policy first affected the Africans and other Peoples inferior to Europe. However, this same ideology that made Europe bask in the pride of its superiority later culminated to their own Holocaust. Lindqvist powerfully reckons with the past and offers enormous contribution to colonial African Literature as well as the genocide practiced by Europe.


In conclusion, Lindqvist writes beautifully and in the process integrates literary criticism, history of culture as well as travel writing with a basic voice that determines to expose social injustice. The dark history of Europe in Africa is successfully brought out and modern continuous efforts to apply the same policy that worked in Europe to inferior groups today. The book expands on the lines by Conrad "Exterminate all brutes" which may have not come out as horrifying in Conrad's book but manage to expose the intense horror as Lindqvist narrates. Lindqvist's work provides literary depth and also intrigues the reader as he or she discovers that the holocaust was in fact made possible by the Europeans themselves based on the policy and ideology that they have held in history regarding extermination......

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