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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy]]'' has been criticized for its portrayal of the Bushmen as entirely ignorant [[Noble Savage
* ''[[George of the Jungle]]'', as a parody of ''Tarzan'', by necessity is set here.
* ''[[Jumanji]]'', in which the board game draws out dangerous elements of a distilled "Darkest Africa"-type jungle located within itself. The jungle is not seen in the film, or even seen by any of its characters save for the main protagonist who is trapped there for years.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' sourcebook ''Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom'' deals with African vampires. Whereas the [[Kindred of the East]] are something completely unique and different (even a little alien) from the western Kindred, the Laibon are just the regular clans with a darker epidermis.
* The pulp themed ''[[Spirit of the Century]]'', set in the 1920s, actually refers to Africa as
* The new [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Empire of the Apes]] faction in ''[[Monsterpocalypse]]'' called this home. No doubt the elders are wishing Kondo had kept to their advice and ''not'' decided to take a peek outside into the humans' proper dominion.
* Spoofed in ''[[Toon (game)|Toon]]'' ([[Rule of Funny|but then, of course it is]]), which has an adventure in "Darkest Africa" reached by...getting off the boat in Africa, then following the sign reading "Dark Africa". It's somewhere on the other side of "Darker Africa". The gag is actually ''[[Older Than They Think|directly]]'' [[Shout-Out|lifted]] from ''Porky in Wackyland,'' below.
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