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I first noticed this in college that every novel about Africa had an acacia tree at sunset on the cover. And even if they don't have the tree often novels will have a sunset theme as if the jacket designer is trying to say "nothing to see here".

But maybe they're really trying to say their visual information about Africa comes entirely from the Lion King poster.

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I loved The Power of One as an early teen. And yes, it was absolutely chock-full of everything in this article, plus the hero is a white savior, and it featured a huge setting sun with an acacia tree on its cover.

By my late teens I had worked out that setting sun was indicative of a certain kind of book.

If not acacia then a groce of baobab, ideally with a giraffe in silhouette.

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