Original sentence: " Africa as a whole was commonly known as "the Dark continent", a term that was usually intended to refer to the Sub-Saharan region.Further, they are misleading, as dark-skinned Africans are indigenous to much of North Africa, as well.These terms are now obsolete and often considered to be pejorative
Edited sentence: " "The Dark continent" was a term that was used to refer to this region." According to Gress, such critiques are based on deception and appeal to anti-intellectual activists.David Gress, a fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, feels that "In this era of galloping anti-intellectualism... such accounts, and the political circumstances in which they appear, raise some important questions about scholarship and propaganda in the academy and, a fortiori, in what remains of the general culture.Gress feels that the allowance of such mythicizing is due to academe "suffering severely from anti-European cultural arrogance, or, to speak frankly, from black racist attempts to impose indoctrination in the place of teaching and scholarship.Many scholars reject these critiques.This term is considered to be pejorative by some