Original sentence: Aleksandar Hemon, the Bosnian-American novelist (who had previously impugned Robert D.John Ryle, professor of anthropology at Bard College, criticised Kapuściński for what Ryle regarded as factual inaccuracies, describing the image he created of Africa as "more thrilling and more accessible to the western imagination" than the actual reality on the ground.Kaplan's stereotyping of "the Balkan mind"), in a critique of Kapuściński's Africa writings published in The Village Voice, accused Kapuściński's readers of turning a blind eye to "the underlying proto-racist essentialism" that informs his vision of and his approach to the cultures of the continent: "[Kapuściński] fumes against the racism absurdly based on skin colour, and would probably be shocked if told that his obsessive listing of essential differences [between "the African mind" and "the European mind"] is essentially racist".Ryle saw in this a manifestation of a certain "variety of latter-day literary colonialism"