Africa has long been called the Dark Continent, Ambassador Feng explained in an article, and is highly unfamiliar to most people, who tend to consider it a primitive, uncivilized place and associate it with racial problems, coups, famine, backwardness and poverty.
馮大使在一篇文章中提及，非洲向有「黑暗大陸」之稱，一般人對非洲極為陌生，總認為那是一片化外原始之地。加上種族問題，政變、饑荒頻仍，常讓人將它與落後、貧窮聯想在一起。