印度诗人兼诺贝尔奖得主拉宾德拉纳特·泰戈尔1936年创作了“非洲颂歌 ” ， 他在这首诗中表达了对文明的看法，指出随着手里拿着手铐/爪牙比狼更锋利的殖民者的到来，非洲大陆沦为了“文明世界野蛮贪婪”的猎物。
As the Indian poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore put it in his 1936 poem “Ode to Africa,” which played on perceptions about who is “civilized,” the continent fell prey to “civilization’s barbaric greed,” as the colonists “arrived, manacles in hand/Claws sharper by far than any of your wolves.”