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Why Is Africa Called The Dark Continent? by chrisxxx(m): 6:12pm On Mar 01, 2017 |
The name was given (possibly) by Henry Stanley. The reason was that very little was known about Africa - other that its external borders until the Scramble for Africa. Livingstone and other explorers in the middle to late 19th Century "discovered" and mapped internal Africa. I speak under correction but another reason may have been that internal Africa was assumed to be peopled by "savages" as in living without the light of "civilisation" |
Re: Why Is Africa Called The Dark Continent? by olayinks007(m): 6:38pm On Mar 01, 2017 |
No b lie. Evrytin abt Africa is dark. Dark minds, dark thinking dark evrytin. Just check 4rm d type of leaders we av. Y i no come white self.. |
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