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:

    And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    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)