Why Was Africa Called the Dark Continent?為何非洲曾被稱為黑大陸？

The most common answer to the question， “Why was Africa called the Dark Continent？” is that Europe did not know much about Africa until the 19th century. But that answer is misleading and disingenuous. Europeans had known quite a lot about Africa for at least 2，000 years， but European leaders began purposefully ignoring earlier sources of information to justify colonialism and anti-Blackness.

對(duì)于“為何非洲曾被稱為黑大陸？”這個(gè)問(wèn)題，最老生常談的答案就是歐洲直到19世紀(jì)才對(duì)非洲有所了解。（剩余9764字）