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Dark Continent

British  

noun

  1. a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Zoo animals from New York meet others of their species for the first time after crash-landing on the Dark Continent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2019

Was it some kind of transplanting of Manifest Destiny from the US west to the so-called Dark Continent?

From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2017

Mazower is professor of history at Columbia and author of Dark Continent, the acclaimed study of the forces that shaped 20th century Europe.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2016

An hour's drive away, at Tampa, is Busch Gardens' Dark Continent, which features not only exotic African beasts on a Serengeti-esque plain but also such other threatened species as snake charmers and belly dancers.

From Time Magazine Archive

In keeping with the quietness, simplicity, and thoroughness of this truly great man was the meeting between him and Stanley when that redoubtable youth found him in the heart of the Dark Continent.

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

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