Be african

>be african
>read "Impressions d'Afrique"
>recommend to other African friend
>get told white people shouldn't write about us
>explain Roussel using Africa, an unimaginable land to him, to construct the most unimaginable tales ever.
>mention our history of mystic spiritualism
>get told I am shilling for colonialists
>get told to love my people more and read more African literature
>tfw post-colonialist literature ruined my friend's ability to immerse himself in really good literature

Well if you would quit being such a Uncle Tom race traitor house nigger and started reading some black authors you would understand

Which country?

I'm from Sudan and he's from Mali

If someone IRL accuses you of "shilling", immediately cut off all contact with them as they are a retard.

Well bravo, you understand that literature is a shortcut to the universal through the specific. Not many people do, regardless of race.

Where are you now?

Your friend is right desu. You should stop relishing the power structure that the white man set up and embrace your roots.

You are very smart, friend.

>nigger
>reading
>R E A D I N G

This. OP you are a traitor to your race and culture. And what is worse, no matter how much you wanna switch this is still what they really think about you:

>You gold chain wearing, fried chicken and biscuit eating monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast running, high jumping, spear chucking, three-hundred-and-sixty-degree basketball dunking, titsun, spade, mulignan. Go the fuck back to Africa. Go the fuck back to Africa.

So think about it, fucking sellout

>shills for the white man
>friend tells me to stop shilling for the white man
>"but why? I know I'll post my woes on a thinly veiled white supremacist fuckboy forum, they'll understand"
>get responses like

Read more African authors and stop being such a little bitch that you run to the people that hate you for comfort.

>there are actually niggers on Veeky Forums

>african literature
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Well this thread was a fascinating read early in the morning.

>read more African literature
>read
Disrespectful towards his country's oral tradition desu

>Teleports behind you
>Decolonize your mind, child

Where these people came from? Are you trolls?

You really believe these stormfags actually reads anything outside of trolling in here? I've argued with these cunts in one of their bait threads and the fucking droopy eyed mutants can't even tell the difference between the words 'similar' and 'identical'. These retards are as inbred as they come and none of their inputs should be taken seriously.

Tell him he's a cunt.

In Africa oral culture is still really strong, and that is a nice way to learn about yourself (just by listening to your family), but orientalists are great if you want to read actual literature, since the lack of strong, secular, popular written culture doesn't really allow black Africa to produce something that can be as good as what yuros write.

He's right on the colonialist shilling though, but if he reads post-colonialist bullshit he's the one that is fooling himself the most, by thinking that African literature (in written form) is good.

>tfw post-colonialist literature ruined my friend's ability to immerse himself in really good literature
It wasn't post-colonialist literature I'm afraid, statistically the main culprit is bound to be his IQ. You're just an exception and you should stop having black friends. Try your best to act white and maybe you won't end up as miserable as your peers.

>t-they hate you too! feel inferior with me!
lol

>being this much of a cuck for the white devil
Why though.

So is it any good? The way you describe makes it seem very interesting

this thread is not healthy

Thanks for the recommendation, friend.

Also, don't mind (or feed) the /pol/trolls.

Shitposting aside, It's sad that people would turn away good literature on account of race. Culture, however, is different. Your friend sounds like a dumb nig, and you should help him see the light

Coming back to this thread, surprised this many people took my bait desu

>

>Go the fuck back to Africa. Go the fuck back to Africa.
Only a nig would be so strangely aggressive as you are now. That's what's so weird about niggers, they process the modern world as if it's the jungle.

Ok OP, serious response here.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with reading and enjoying colonialist literature
There is a lot to be learned about perspective from reading people who hate you, and how they rationalized the things they did or their support of persons who did awful things
Don't let anyone tell you that you shouldn't read anything you enjoy for any reason

>decolonize your mind
I actually like that phrase but not in a racial context, more like a near opposite political, "remove post modern brainwashing" sense. It says a lot in a few words.

Yeah lmao I can't even tell who's trolling anymore

...

I don't get it why Americans use 'Uncle Tom' as a placeholder for race traitor. This book somehow made its way into my house (I'm Italian) and I read it when I was a teenager and Uncle Tom is actually a dude who risked his life to help escaped slaves. Where does this meme come from?

t. John Tuturro

Copyright didn't exist then, so a bunch of hacks wrote books called "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that were pro-slavery.

I dunno 'cause I haven't read it, but it's a really old idiom. It's probably been in use since at least the 1920s. I bet Wiki has the whole thing broken down, though.

I'm not sure whether I should be amused or horrified these people exist. Fascinating, in any case.

I like you.

I promise I´m being serious too. Do you think that all colonialists in Africa hated Africans? I suspect some were just misguided but meant well.

The "Darkest Africa" trope was an extremely effective narrative shortcut to combine realism and fantasy. The pre-globalized European had little epistemic access to the goings-on in Africa, making it effectively a blank slate for the pre-globalized European author. Contemporary writers are forced to use other planets or utterly invented settings, which forfeits the verisimilitude of groundedness that "Darkest Africa" tales exploited. You're on point, OP. Your friend is losing out on a ton of great literature (the height of which is probably Heart of Darkness). Literary tribalism is provincialism of the soul. Ressentiment is neither just nor beautiful.

>Do you think that all colonialists in Africa hated Africans?
probably not 'hate', but i'd reckon a majority considered them to be inferior as an ethnic group

honestly, I don't browse /pol/ and I'm not some epic alt righter but I think 'decolonization' was a huge mistake. the African nations were clearly not ready to handle the responsibility of running their own countries. I think we shouldve went for a more gradual release of power.

I think Rhodesia had the fairest and most reasonable arrangement with the kaffir.

Go to bed, Ice Cube

You're not in hell if you don't want others to share your pain.

>get told to read African literature
>no African literature exists
>can't read anyways because African
>will never have a chance to learn to read because have 6 months until dead from AIDS

Tell that to the Portuguese African civilians who were getting their heads lopped off with machetes

>waah bad things happened at one point in history
>that totally justifies the objectively worse things happening now
This is your brain on liberalism. Let me guess, Islamic extremism is fine because muh Crusades?

Lol

>popular written culture doesn't really allow black Africa to produce something that can be as good as what yuros write.

>Has never read Ben Okri

Are you retarded or are /pol/-cucks illiterate

I meant Portuguese people in Africa

You fucking faggot

You've just internalized your racism. You're wrong, nigger.

>he doesn't enjoy African literature

What a pleb, consider suicide.

Islamic extremism is fine, but not because of Crusades

>hurr durr look at me, I'm not like other blacks because I read books written by whites

Kill yourself

We'll keep them north of the Zambezi
'Til that river's running dry
This mighty land will prosper
For Rhodesians never die