Why Was Africa Called the Dark Continent?为何非洲曾被称为黑大陆？

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.

对于“为何非洲曾被称为黑大陆？”这个问题，最老生常谈的答案就是欧洲直到19世纪才对非洲有所了解。（剩余9764字）