What was once known as the Dark Continent will henceforth be known as the bright continent.

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By the same token, Europeans and Americans for centuries have approached Africa with stereotyped expectations--dark continent, jungle, lions and crocodiles, savage tribes and lately, grinding poverty, racism, and a land ravaged by AIDs--only to find those stereotypes both true and utterly wrong.

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The part of central Africa he was investigating, round the headwaters of the Nile and the Great Lakes, was the darkest part of the continent's dark heart.

ECONOMIST: Hendrik Coetzee, explorer, died on December 7th, aged 35