[[Chinua Achebe]] "rohadt fajgyűlölőnek" ( "bloody racist") nevezte "[[An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "'Heart of Darkness"]]'" című cikkében.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Achebe |first=Chinua |title=An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' |language=angol |url=http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html |accessdate=2013-08-21|journal= Massachusetts Review |volume= 18 |year= 1977}} ''in'' {{cite book|title=Heart of Darkness, An Authoritative Text, background and Sources Criticism |year=1961. 3rd ed. |editor= Robert Kimbrough |location=London |publisher= W. W Norton and Co.|year=1988 |pages=251–261 }}</ref>
