European Colonisation of Europe Versus European Colonisation of Africa and Other Continents, A Textual and Juxtapositional Study of Heart of Darkness

were essentially economic and to conquer those who had non-white color and "flatter noses" as opposed to their straight noses and white color. Flatter noses and "different complexion" denote inferiority complex, whereas straight noses and white complexion connote superiority. Maybe that is why Chinua Achebe denounced the novel as thoroughly racist.