Colonization

Africa is a large continent, and during European Colonization they called it “The Dark Continent”. When most of the world had been under European authority, Africa held out until the early 19th century from full European control. Even with bits of Africa colonized, a majority of the continent remains unexplored, even to this day there are parts of Africa people like you or me haven’t heard of. Africa is bordered by some of the harshest deserts on Earth, many of which are impenetrable which sort of explains why it wasn’t colonized until the beginning of the 19th century and in most of the Equatorial Zone it is covered by rainforest and jungle. Many of these situations caused great difficulty for Europeans penetrating the interiors of Africa. Africa is an incredibly beautiful continent though many people every day battle the many hardships Africa has. History is an incredible utensil to learn of our ancestral past.
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