The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.
A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.
Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
What European nation which has undertaken the heavy responsibility of introducing the blessings and vices of civilization into the Dark Continent can claim immunity for its representatives
The way people see Africa is mostly dark.
The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.
… that huge black continent so full of fierce mysteries and vague hopes …
