Toto recorded Africa without ever having been there.... I wonder how many other songs have similar starting points.
This Financial Times piece explores the life of the song. This was a song on Toto IV.
Toto are an American rock band, originally formed in 1977 by David Paich and Jeff Porcaro.
Here's the song in case you haven't heard it... which I doubt.
This piece looks at the lyrics and the criticism they faced, partly for being "geographically inept".
