White Zimbabweans celebrating the departure of Mugabe.. Africans.. Zimbabweans wake up .. For Europeans, Africa remained the supplier of valuable raw materials—human bodies and elephant tusks. But otherwise they saw the continent as faceless, blank, empty, a place on the map waiting to be explored” (Prologue, p. 18).Hochschild explains the colonial attitude towards Africa as a supplier of their needs. They did not see Africa as belonging to the Africans. The Afrikans must destroy the credibility