Dark Continent
Proper noun
Meaning
the Dark Continent
(sometimes offensive, dated, informal) Africa.
Synonyms
Examples
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck -- and, of course, courage.
If I were black and young, no steamer could revolve its wheels fast enough to convey me to the dark continent. I should go where my color was the correct thing, and leave these pale faces to work out their own destiny.
Felix Sanhedrin, a twenty-five-year veteran of covert operations in Africa and the Middle East, sat on the rear bench of the convoy's second Suburban like Allan Quatermain returned to the Dark Continent.
Thomas Pakenham, ‘’The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912'' (1992) ch 12 However, in 1883–84 Germany began to build a colonial empire in Africa and the South Pacific, before losing interest in imperialism.