History Main / DarkestAfrica

* In ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'', Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham are sent as missionaries to Uganda and find out the hard way that "Africa is nothing like ''Disney/TheLionKing''!" Instead, it's full of Third World problems such as AIDS, clitoridectomies, and warlords who shoot people in the face. Even so, one song has the white missionaries sing, "Weeeee are Africa, We are deepest darkest Africa..."

* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' takes place in Uganda. While the Uganda represented in the musical reflects modern African sensibilities and concerns, one song does say: "Weeeee are Africa, We are deepest darkest Africa, ..."

->''"Darkest Africa is only dark to those wearing blinders,''
->''to him who cannot think''
->''whose brain is hardened and dusty"''
-->--'''Fokofpolisiekar''', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MdSh8OGCGw "Antibiotika"]] [Afrikaans][[labelnote:Original lyrics]]Donker Afrika is net donker vir die met oogklappe aan / Hy wat nie kan dink / Wie se harsings hard en stowwerig is[[/labelnote]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' expansion pack ''Hammerlock's Hunt'' has a fair amount of this, with an unusual emphasis on dark and dreary environments with precious little jungle or savanna to be seen. Hammerlock is of course the very ideal of the GreatWhiteHunter, and the BigBad (such as he is) is very much a MightyWhitey controlling the aggressive and shamanistic tribesmen. In a small twist (and possibly an attempt to head off UnfortunateImplications), the tribesmen are largely white and are former colonists who went mad after being abandoned on Pandora by their employers.

* The early ''{{Tintin}}'' adventure ''Tintin in the Congo'', infamous for its condescending depiction of African natives and senseless slaughter of wildlife. It's been intermittently available in English; current print runs are aimed largely at older fans and put out in an almost embarrassed fashion.
** Mind you, that's the ''revised'' colored version, where Herge rounded the sharpest corners and excised the parts that caused the most criticism. The original black-and-white comic was ''[[UpToEleven much]]'' worse.

* ''RoadTo Zanzibar''

* Tarna in ''QuestForGloryIII'' covers all manner of African portrayals, with this particular one going to the LostWorld, the final section of the map containing the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Lost City]], as well as a hidden monkey village, a tribe of hostile apemen and lots of pissed-off demons. A section before that is a large jungle containing a secretive tribe of magic-wielding leopardmen that attack the player on-sight and are distrusted by their counterparts, the nomadic, savannah-dwelling Simbani, and it's the protagonists' job to stop the two from going to war.

* Tarna in ''QuestForGloryIII'' covers all manner of African portrayals, with this particular one going to the LostWorld, the final section of the map containing the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Lost City]], as well as a hidden monkey village, a tribe of hostile apemen and lots of pissed-off demons. A section before that is a large jungle containing a secretive tribe of magic-wielding leopardmen that are distrusted by their counterparts, the nomadic, savannah-dwelling Simbani, and it's the protagonists' job to stop the two from going to war.

* Tarna in ''QuestForGloryIII'' covers all manner of African portrayals, with this particular one going to the LostWorld, the final section of the map containing the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Lost City]], as well as a hidden monkey village, a tribe of hostile apemen and lots of pissed-off demons.

* Tarna in ''QuestForGloryIII'' covers all manner of African portrayals, with this particular one going to the Lost World, the final section of the map containing the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Lost City]], as well as a hidden monkey village, a tribe of hostile apemen and lots of pissed-off demons.

* Tarna in ''QuestForGloryIII'' covers all manner of African portrayals, with this particular one going to the Lost World, the final section of the map containing the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Lost City]], as well as a hidden monkey village and lots of pissed-off demons.

* Pyunma/008's home country looks like this the first time we see it in ''{{Cyborg 009}}'', but in subsequent stories, ShotaroIshinomori tried to portray a slightly more realistic version of modern Africa, with cities & cars & things like that (and also changing Pyunma's backsotry from [[spoiler: a former tribal prince turned into]] [[MadeASlave an ex-slave]] to a former guerrilla fighter caught an injured in a crossfire). Actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope, with 009 saying that Africa's nothing like what he read about in books when he visits.

In older stories, the MightyWhitey abounds, along with MisplacedWildlife.

->''The story of Africa in the modern age is one of war, disease, corruption, repression and poverty. On the upside, there are [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys tons of monkeys]] and you never need a jacket.''
-->-- ''AmericaTheBook''

->''Darkest Africa is only dark to those wearing blindfolds,''

->''whose brain is hardened and dusty''
-->-- Fokofpolisiekar, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MdSh8OGCGw "Antibiotika"]]'' [Afrikaans][[labelnote:Original lyrics]]Donker Afrika is net donker vir die met oogklappe aan / Hy wat nie kan dink / Wie se harsings hard en stowwerig is[[/labelnote]]

-->-- Fokofpolisiekar, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MdSh8OGCGw "Antibiotika"]]'' [Afrikaans][[labelnote:Original lyrics]]Donker Afrika is net donker vir die met oogklappe aan / Hy wat nie kan dink / Wie se harsings en stowwerig is[[/labelnote]]

-->-- Fokofpolisiekar, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MdSh8OGCGw "Antibiotika"]]'' [Afrikaans]

----> Tatooed cannibals danced in files...

* Kemco's ''Ghost Lion'', which is probably the ''only'' RPG in the world set in (non-Egypt) Africa

* In an extremely rare variant of this trope, ''VideoGame/RyseSonOfRome'' has a mission set in ''Darkest Britain.'' The lands north of Hadrian's Wall are portrayed as a dark and foggy DeathWorld where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou. The local population are savages who wear animal skulls and furs, scream and holler in a horrific BlackSpeech, and kidnap foreigners to sacrifice them to their gods by burning them alive. Basically, it hits every characteristic of this trope... it's just set in Scotland.
** It may well be a nod to ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', where Marlowe had mentioned the Romans once saw Britain as this very trope. For bonus points, the goal of the mission was to rescue a Roman general who had gone missing in these very lands, and he does turn out to be mad... although it becomes clear the guy was always [[TheCaligula a maniac]] long before he arrived in Britain.

* VideoGame/Borderlands2 expansion pack ''Hammerlock's Hunt'' has a fair amount of this, with an unusual emphasis on dark and dreary environments with precious little jungle or savanna to be seen. Hammerlock is of course the very ideal of the GreatWhiteHunter, and the BigBad (such as he is) is very much a MightyWhitey controlling the aggressive and shamanistic tribesmen. In a small twist (and possibly an attempt to head off UnfortunateImplications), the tribesmen are largely white and are former colonists who went mad after being abandoned on Pandora by their employers.

* MarvelUniverse: Wakanda, the kingdom ruled by T'Challa ("BlackPanther") has ''laws'' that maintain "tribal customs" despite being extraordinarily wealthy - a convienent way to maintain its LostWorld flavor.

**** Seeing the many Africans, who come to Israel for work, this scene is probably not so far from the reality.

* The first Literature/TimeScout book ends with a trip to 17th century Africa. It doesn't end well. Well, it does, but it doesn't middle well.

* Legendary big man One Man Gang underwent a new gimmick in the late 80's and became Akeem, the African Dream. The gimmick (which was cheesy and somewhat racist, as it had a white man dressing in African tribal garb and using a stereotypical accent and mannerisms, though it was a TakeThat to the wrestler "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, a big fat white guy who tried to talk "black.") billed him from "Deepest, Darkest Africa".