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Heart of Darkness in Igbo: Joseph Conrad’s novella of Marlow’s journey up a great river in Africa.

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

N’elu ụgbọ mmiri Nellie, Marlow na-akọ akụkọ njem o mere n’osimiri dị n’Afrịka. Ụlọ ọrụ na-azụ ọdụ enyi nyere ya ọrụ ịkwọ ụgbọ mmiri uzuoku; ka ọ na-eru n’ime ala, ọ na-anụkwu banyere otu onye ọrụ pụrụ iche aha ya bụ Kurtz.

Njem ahụ dugara Marlow n’etiti ime ihe ike, anyaukwu na owu ọmụma. Ka ọ na-abịaru Kurtz nso, okwu ọma ndị e ji akọwa ọrụ ụlọ ọrụ ahụ na ihe anya ya na-ahụ na-amalite ịpụ iche. Akụkọ ahụ na-ajụ ihe mmadụ pụrụ ịma banyere ndị ọzọ, na ihe ọ ga-ahọrọ ikwu mgbe ọ lọtara.

Nsụgharị a debere akụkụ atọ nke akụkọ Joseph Conrad. Aha ndị mmadụ, ụgbọ mmiri na ebe dị iche iche ka dị ka ha si dị n’ederede Bekee. Okwu Latin na French e debere n’akụkọ ahụ nwere nkọwa Igbo n’elu.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #219. Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 108 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.