Dark Continent

Dark Continent may refer to:

  • A 19th century expression previously used to describe Africa, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Dark Continent (album), an album by Wall of Voodoo
  • Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, a book on 20th century European history by Mark Mazower

Famous quotes containing the words dark and/or continent:

    On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose,
    Tired of his dark dominion, swung the fiend
    Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened,
    George Meredith (1828–1909)

    There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)