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Heart of Darkness in Hausa: Joseph Conrad’s novella of Marlow’s journey up a great river in Africa, in a complete Hausa translation.

Original author: Joseph Conrad. Original title: Heart of Darkness. Translated into Hausa from the English original.

A cikin wani jirgin ruwa a bakin kogin Thames, Marlow ya ba abokansa labarin tafiyarsa zuwa cikin Afirka a matsayin matuƙin jirgin ruwa mai tururi na wani kamfanin cinikin hauren giwa. Can saman kogin, a cikin daji mai duhu, yana neman Kurtz, wakilin kamfanin da ya fi kowa tara hauren giwa, wanda labarai masu ban tsoro ke yawo a kansa.

Joseph Conrad ya rubuta wannan gajeren littafi bisa ga tafiyarsa ta shekarar 1890 a kogin Kongo, kuma mujallar Blackwood’s Magazine ta buga shi a shekarar 1899. Labari ne game da mulkin mallaka, da haɗama, da abin da ke ɓoye a zuciyar ɗan Adam.

An fassara wannan labari daga Turanci, harshen da Joseph Conrad ya rubuta shi. Asalin rubutun shi ne Heart of Darkness, wanda mujallar Blackwood’s Magazine ta fara bugawa a shekarar 1899, a bugun Project Gutenberg mai lamba 219. Sassa uku na labarin suna nan yadda suke a asali.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #219. Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 144 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover: The Upper Congo: drawing by H. H. Johnston, plate in his The River Congo from its Mouth to Bólobó (London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1895). Smithsonian Libraries, via the Internet Archive.