Read the excerpt from "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. ” Conrad, after all, did sail down the Congo in 1890 when my own father was still a babe in arms. How could I stand up more than fifty years after his death and purport to contradict him? My answer is that as a sensible man I will not accept just any traveller's tales solely on the grounds that I have not made the journey myself. I will not trust the evidence even of a man's very eyes when I suspect them to be as jaundiced as Conrad's. What type of evidence does Achebe use to support his claim in this passage?
Achebe uses a personal, story-like detail: Conrad traveled down the Congo in 1890, when Achebe’s father was a baby. He then draws on his own perspective to explain why he would not accept a traveler’s account automatically. This is anecdotal evidence, not a quotation or a summary of a text.
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