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:

    “O conspiracy,
    Sham’st thou to show thy dang’rous brow by night,
    When evils are most free? O then, by day
    Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
    To mask thy monstrous visage?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Our moat around us is no more a moat,
    Our continent no more a moated castle.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)