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."
Ali ono što je važno o njegovom pisanju jest da predstavlja početak tradicije pričanja afričkih priča na zapadu. Tradicije Sub-Saharske Afrike kao negativnog mjesta, mjesta različitosti, tame, ljudi koji, prema riječima prekrasnog pjesnika, Rudyarda Kiplinga, su "polu vrag, polu dijete".