Article: 'Ebony's African world. (magazine's coverage of African events)(50th Anniversary Issue)

When Ebony was founded half a century ago, Africa was still viewed in White America as the "Dark Continent" occupied largely by "savage" tribes and ferocious jungle beasts. Little, if anything, was written in the U.S. press about the ravages and exploitation visited on Africa and its people by greedy European colonialists and even less about the valiant struggle waged by Africans to free themselves. Ebony, although only an infant at the time, helped change all that. From the outset it paid almost as much attention to the Black freedom struggle of our African brothers and sisters in Africa and the West Indies as it did to the one waged at home.

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