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Dark Continent

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Dark Continent
A former name for Africa, so used because its hinterland was largely unknown and therefore mysterious to Europeans until the 19th century. Henry M. Stanley was probably the first to use the term in his 1878 account Through the Dark Continent.
Dark Continent
n
(Placename) the. a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored


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Stanley was moving like a tiny point of light through the heart of the Dark Continent.
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And yet you were battling with muscles that have time and time again been pitted, and always victoriously, against these terrors of the dark continent.
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A report, or it would be better to say a rumor, had come to the British headquarters in German East Africa that the enemy had landed in force on the west coast and was marching across the dark continent to reinforce their colonial troops.
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