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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
This is not hard. When the native Africans are referred to as "primitives" as well as the entire theme of the white saviors of Europe coming to "improve" the natives are obviously racist, even if they were the status quo of the time.
Did Haggard hold racist views? Almost certainly. He was involved in colonialism in South Africa, which was a whole bag of issues all on its own. Nevermind that modern African scholars deplore his work and others like it. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a Kenyan scholar of race and literature, refers to Haggard as one of the "geniuses of racism" in his book Decolonizing the Mind.
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In which of his books does Haggard refer to Africans as primitive? Quote a Passage I can check, as I have most of his books.
You are making an assertion without offering proof.
You are also assuming that the modern African scholars you quote do not have their own political agenda which is skewing their opinions.
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