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Sometimes written records were kept too. One has to listen, think, and reflect. In fact, it's an honor to be involved with this kind of work. Coifman has collected oral traditions from families that date back from the eleventh century up to the late nineteenth century in northwestern Senegal and southwestern Mauritania.

Within Senegal, Coifman conducted research in the history of two former states that belonged to the Wolof people. One of the families that she interviewed were historians of the former ruling line in the Wolof State of Jolof. In another former Wolof state, Waalo, she interviewed a family who had a different social status. They were of the former ruling lineages. The mere survival rate of 0.

Furthermore, only three of the survivors managed to clear the post-evaluation test and return to their daily lives. However, these voyages were not sanctioned by the V5 and were, therefore, unofficial. An indispensable component of a successful voyage is a Guide. The Guide is a being summoned by the Gatekeeper, a race of magical beasts, which holds the only known connection to the Dark Continent.

Without them, it would be impossible for humans to get past the Known World's oceanic borders. Witnessing the wild battle, Netero exclaims: " This place is too big It's off the charts! A younger Isaac once went on an undocumented expedition to the Dark Continent while being accompanied by Linne and Zigg. Furthermore, an individual tried to travel the Mobius shoreline all by himself years ago, and is the alleged author of the traveler's guide Journey to the New World.

It is known that two editions exist, for the East and the West respectively, but only the East one has of yet been found. Ging proposes three possibilities for the West book's fate, one of those being that it's still being written to this day by none other than Don Freecss. The existence of the Dark Continent was first implied when Ging and Gon met atop the World Tree and Ging revealed that the Chimera Ants whom the Extermination Team faced off against came from somewhere other than the Known World, a land Ging wishes to explore.

Africa was seen by the explorers as an erotically and psychologically powerful place of darkness, one that could only be cured by a direct application of Christianity and, of course, capitalism. Geographer Lucy Jarosz describes this stated and unstated belief clearly: Africa was seen as "a primeval, bestial, reptilian, or female entity to be tamed, enlightened, guided, opened, and pierced by white European males through western science, Christianity, civilization, commerce, and colonialism.

In reality, African people had been achieving great things in a variety of fields for thousands of years - often before Europeans did. Ancient African cultures were responsible for developing entire mathematical systems, charting the sun and creating calendars, sailing to South America and Asia long before Europeans did, and developing tools and techniques that even surpassed Roman technology.

Africa was even home to its own empires notably, the Zulu , as well as enormous libraries and universities in countries such as Mali. By the s and s, European traders, officials, and adventurers were going to Africa to plunder, exploit, and destroy its people and resources. Recent developments in weaponry gave these men enough military might to enslave African people and seize control of raw materials.

A particularly severe example of this is King Leopold's Belgian Congo. When things escalated, Europeans took no accountability and blamed Black people instead.

Africa, they said, was what supposedly brought out the savagery in man. That belief is patently false. Over the years, people have given lots of reasons why Africa was called the Dark Continent.

Many people know it is a racist phrase but don't fully understand why. The common belief that the phrase just referred to Europe's lack of knowledge about Africa makes it seem outdated, but otherwise benign.

Race does lie at the heart of this myth, but it is not just about skin color. Calling Africa The Dark Continent further codified the association between whiteness, purity, and intelligence and Blackness as a pollutant that made one subhuman.

This is principle is exemplified by the one drop rule. The myth of the Dark Continent referred to the inferiority that Europeans convinced themselves was endemic to Africa, to further their political and economic agenda.

The idea that its lands were unknown came from disregarding centuries of pre-colonial history, contact, and travel across the continent. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.

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