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:

    “Better to die, or not to have been born,
    than hear that plaining, piteous convict wail
    about these beautiful dark eyebrowed women.
    It’s soldiers who sing these days. O Lord God.”
    —Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)

    “Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”
    —Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)