Why Africa is dark continent and reasons for backwardness?

Answer 1

Africa was called the dark continent because nobody knew what was inside it. The only people who had explored it were the portugals and they had only made contact with a few coastal villages. This was in the 1600's or so and when the 1800's and 1900's rolled around, people began to ponder over the vast land. This lead to the discovery of diamonds, ruby, etc and thus lead thus triggered the scramble for Africa.

Answer 2

Because of its unexplored nature, like the saying goes "i am in the dark" it means that you dont know something. So the early explorers knew very little about the continent so they called it the dark continent.

Answer 3

Africa is called the dark continent not because of the complextion of the original inhabitants no the absents of lights, primarily because most people knew very few about it. And also the knowledge of its interior was so very limited

Answer 4

Africa was known as the Dark Continent because little was known about the interior of the continent.

Answer 5

Because only the coastal areas had been explored so map makers had to leave a dark area to represent the undiscovered areas. So basically the entire of the inside of Africa was dark.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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