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* The setting for ''Sheena, Queen of the Jungle''.
* ''[[Wonder Woman|Wonder Woman (1987)]]'': Cheetah's post-Crisis backstory plays this entirely straight, with the source of her powers stemming from a cannibalistic cult deep in Africa's jungles.
* ''Simba, King of the Beasts''
* From the ''[[Popeye|Popeye the Sailor comics]]'', it states that Jeeps originated from this place.
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[The African Queen]]''.
* In keeping with its source material, the second half of ''[[Heart of Darkness|Heart of Darkness (1958)]]'' takes place in an African jungle full of Hollywood Natives. (But the setting might be a product of Marlow's imagination.)
* ''Mighty Joe Young'' (1949)
* The Bud Abbott and Lou Costello film, ''Africa Screams''.
* ''[[Kirikou and The Sorceress]]''
* ''Congo Bill'' (1948)
* ''The Naked Earth'' (1958)
* ''Africa Speaks'' (1930)
* ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'' had the protagonists going here to search for Drake's father and the Blue Monkey Diamond.
* ''The Lost City'' (1935)
* The 1975 film ''Hugo the Hippo'' takes place in Africa.
* ''Stanley & Livingston''
* ''The World's Greatest Athlete'' (1973)
* ''Jungle Jim'' (1948)
* ''Lost in Africa'' (1994)
* ''West of Zanzibar'' both the 1928 and 1954 versions.
* ''The Jungle Princess'' (1920)
* ''Jungle Drums of Africa'' (1953)
* ''The Jungle Goddess'' (1922)
* ''Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle'', being an animated parody of ''Tarzan: King of the Jungle''.
* ''Simba: The King of the Beasts'' (1928)
* ''In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro'' (1986)
* ''[[Madagascar|Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa]]'' takes place entirely in Africa.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* The first [[Time Scout]] book ends with a trip to 17th century Africa. It doesn't end well. Well, it does, but it doesn't middle well.
* The sword and soul sub-genre of [[Heroic Fantasy]] often is set here or in [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] versions of Africa with black heroes instead of [[Mighty Whitey]] heroes.
* Most of the ''[[Babar the Elephant]]'' stories take place here.
* The Oompa Loompas from ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' were originally attended to be African slaves from the jungle, but the film adaptations changed their backstories.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* The [[Magical Native American|Magical Bushman]] arc from Season 3 of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' provides a slight example of this trope. The character himself is something of an aversion: despite making his home in the brush, he has a Walkman and keeps abreast of current events. However, places in the series are usually addressed as "Odessa, Texas," or "Tokyo, Japan." Whenever the action cuts to that plot? "Somewhere In Africa." Yeah...
** Only because the character that was there didn't actually know where he was, he just kind of appeared there, and mysterious painter man isn't about to tell him that "you're twenty kilometres northeast of Mombasa, you can make it there by nightfall if you hurry", the man's got lessons to learn first.
* The episode, ''A Thousand Tiny Wings'' from ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who]]'' takes place in Kenya during the 1950s.
* Israeli brief comedy series ''Lost in Africa'' features an Israeli fashion modeling company flying to the fictional country Abuna Kilosa, which borders on Chad and Sudan ([[Shown Their Work|most likely where RL Central African Republic is]]), for a photo shootout with a Swedish model and an English photographer. The show averts, plays with, and [[Deconstruction|deconstructs]] the trope.
** While the people there are shown as rather primitive, sporting:
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== Multi-media ==
* Many an adventure or treasure hunt involves a search for something "lost in the African jungle".
== [[Music]] ==
* The 1947 American song, ''Civilization'', is a humorous satire of this trope. It's about a native of The Congo who learns about the "civilized" world from a missionary. From the Congolese native's perspective, the "civilized" lifestyle is actually uncivilized.
* Vulvodynia's ''Mob Justice'' is something of a Deconstruction of this, as the album lyrically focuses on the dark side of modern South African life and the violence, poverty, widespread economic stratification, drug addiction, and lingering scars of apartheid and past oppression that never quite healed.
* "In the Jungle, The Mighty Jungle, ''The Lion Sleeps Tonight''".
== [[Poetry]] ==
* As [https://web.archive.org/web/20190823051908/http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=37133&pageno=11 Vachel Lindsay so well put it,]
{{quote|''Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black,
Cutting through the jungle with a golden track''
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* Disney's ''Adventureland'' at ''Disneyland'' parks has some elements from Darkest Africa in a 1930's like setting.
** Disney's ''The Jungle Cruise'' has the Congo river and Nile river portions.
* ''Busch Gardens'' at Tampa Florida is themed to Africa, in fact, it was once called ''Busch Gardens - The Dark Continent''.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The first ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' game's Kong Island is loosely based on this.
** ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' takes a much bigger approach with the African jungle setting with the introduction of the Tiki Tak Tribe.
* The second continent ''Wiggly Wilds'' from ''[[Wario Land|Wario Land: Shake It!]]'' is based on the African savanna.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Wackyland, from the [[Looney Tunes]] short ''[[Porky in Wackyland]]'' (and it's color remake ''Dough for the Do-Do''), is located here. Porky Pig has to fly over Dark and Darker Africa to get there.
** Porky also traveled to Africa on ''Porky in Egypt'', ''Porky's Ant'', and ''Africa Squeaks''.
** ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djxnw090EeE Inki and the Minah Bird]'', an obscure [[Looney Tunes]] short, also takes place in there.
** ''Congo Jazz'' is an early example of this trope.
** The first and last halves of ''Nelly's Folly'' took place in the jungles of Africa.
** The Frank Tashlin short ''The Major Lied Till Dawn'' takes place in Darkest Africa.
** The infamous ''Censored Eleven'' short ''Jungle Jitters'' has this setting.
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* The ''[[Betty Boop]]'' cartoon ''I'll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You'' takes place in the jungles of Africa.
* Parodied on ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' on ''Club SpongeBob'', where SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward get lost in Kelp Forest and get found by an explorer.
** Also parodied on
* ''[[Popeye (cartoon)|Popeye]]'' once treveled to Darkest Africa searching for Bluto in ''Fightin Pals''; the short shows him actually going through Dark Africa and Darker Africa before getting to his destiny.
* Parodied on ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' [[Nature Documentary]] parody ''Lair of the Lummox'', with Ignoranium being a parody of Africa.
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** The Warner trio also traveled here to find a cure for Wakko's hiccups one time.
* An episode of ''[[The Alvin Show]]'' had Dave and the chipmunks in Africa searching for jungle sounds for their songs.
* The 1943 ''[[Superman Theatrical Cartoons|Superman]]'' cartoon ''Jungle Drums'' has Lois Lane crashing her plane in Africa and she and Superman come across the Nazis' base.
* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' got lost here on ''
* At least three ''[[Terry Toons]]'' take place here, ''Who's Who in the Jungle'' with Gandy Goose and Sourpuss, ''The Lion Hunt'' with Heckle and Jeckle, and ''The Hapless Hippo'' with Mighty Mouse.
* Two ''[[Pink Panther (Animation)|Pink Panther]]'' cartoons had this setting on ''It's Pink, But is it Mink?'' and ''Sink Pink''.
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* The ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' episode ''Welcome to the Jungle'' had Pinky and the Brain getting mistaken for monkeys and get taken to an African-like jungle where they meet Snowball.
* The ''[[DuckTales]]'' episode ''Jungle Duck'' takes place here.
* Famous Studios' ''[[Screen Songs]]'' had an entire short revolving around Darkest Africa called ''Jingle Jangle Jungle''.
* Jungle Land from ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' has several African elements.
* The ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' episode ''Young Jack in Africa'' had a young Jack training and getting raised by an African tribe.
* An earlier 1930s ''[[Silly Symphonies|Silly Symphony]]'' called ''Cannibal Capers'' revolves around African cannibals in a jungle.
== Other ==
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