Exterminates all the Brutes Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

A unique study of Europe's dark history in Africa, written in the form of a travel diary and an examination of European imperialism and racism over the past two centuries. It makes a daring contribution to the debate on the depths and costs of racism today.
Horrors and declining cultures on the grand scale figure in Sven Lindqvist's brilliant ''Exterminate All the Brutes''. . . Lindqvist is on a dual journey, travelling through the Sahara with a lap-top while he trawls through a chapter of appalling depravity-Europe's colonization of Africa.
- New Scientist

Lindqvist weaves a Saharan travel diary together with historical analysis to tell the gruesome yet gripping story of imperialism and racism over two centuries . . . The chilling title of this excellent book is the line from Conrad's Heart of Darkness that concludes Kurtz's report on the task of the white man in Africa.
- Mail on Sunday