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19 Σεπ 2024 · White people called Africa the Dark Continent because they wanted to legitimize the enslavement of Black people and exploitation of Africa's resources. Exploration: Creating Blank Spaces.
12 Οκτ 2022 · The late 19th British explorer and colonialist Henry Stanley dubbed Africa the “Dark Continent”. Certainly not a term of endearment. Before then, the German philosopher Georg Hegel opined: “Africa is no historical part of the world; it has no movement or development to exhibit.”
Africa: Still the "Dark Continent" Henry Stanley named Africa "The Dark Continent" in his 1878 travelogue, remarking that it was poorly known. Only 7 years later, the Congress of Berlin felt obliged to carve up the darkness into convenient chunks for the European powers' pleasure and profit. Naturally, at that
The recent progress that has been made in studying African history may have created a widespread impression that soon historians will have virtually the whole of the African past - at least since about 1500 - within their grasp.
4 Ιουλ 2024 · The term “Dark Continent” was used to describe Africa when it was relatively unexplored. Henry Morton Stanley saw Africa as a land of mystery, with its diverse landscapes and cultures largely unknown to outsiders.
Searching for the origins of 'the popular mental image of "the dark continent'", Professor Curtin suggests that 'an image began to emerge out of the haze of the unknown with the first voyages down the West African coast in the fifteenth century'
22 Νοε 2014 · Africa was studied as a primitive, uncivilised, and otherworldly place—a continent of savages and cannibals so vividly portrayed to a Western audience in writing like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness — a “prehistoric Earth… an unknown planet” inhabited by “prehistoric man”.
