Salam brothers.

I'm new in this forum. I browsed the internet in order
to know the origins of the appellation "Alkebulan" but
didn't find enough information.

According to one source:

"
ALKEBU-LAN is an ancient name for Africa, which originated
from the African Moors. The Moors occupied northern Africa
and southern Europe from approximately the 7th to the 15th
century A.D. ALKEBU-LAN, which is ancient Arabic, means
"The Land of the Blacks."
"

Is there sombebody who knows the real meaning of Alkebulan?
Perhaps brother "Alkebulantaazar" who posted many messages
in this forum could help. I think that once we'll be aware of our
history and symbols/names, we will be able to build the new Africa.

I need your help, brothers.

Salam.

sunjata

Wow you need to go to the thread AFRICA and post this too.

Peace bru.

Thanks a lot for the replies.

Alkebulan, among the other names for mother Africa, has a
strong vibration.

I heard that Dr Ben Jochannan wrote some articles about this name.
I haven't read these articles. And I don't know where to find
them. Any idea on how to get them?

I believe that we must restore the culture of Alkebulan, in order
to create again in Africa, the mother of all civilizations, the
beginning of a new civilization that will bring peace and humanity to the world.

Let's ask to every brother the meaning and the history of
Alkebulan. And let's share the knowledge.

May God bless us, brothers.

- sunjata

Welcome Brother sunjata and thank you for the enlightening information and call for the rebirth of our beloved Africa. As for sisters in the struggle, we can also benefit from this dialogue and share information. I too, look forward to the responses to your questions.

Peace!

Hi sister NNQueen.

You are absolutely right and I must beg your perdon. I believe
that sisters of Africa have a master role in this struggle.

With love

sunjata

...dont quote me, but I think Alkebulan may have something to do with the phrase "cradle of civilization".

DreamFunk, can you recall where you learned this?

I think what you are looking for is the original name all Africans called their continent. This unfortunately did not exist.

The continent as a whole was never called by the same name by the native inhabitants. This only came about when other countries recorded a name for its existence. Africans the continent all over had their own name for their own land, and that of the other tribes. A collective consciousness that all this land was one was never a part of the culture. As even the Egyptians, did not know the full extent of the continent and broke it up into the known lands and people. The name as it is today representing the whole continent can be attributed to a number of possibilities, seven of which have been endorsed as the most likely by the United Nations. Alkebulan is not one of them.

There is an extract of these seven in the below link.

http://www.destee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14540&highlight=word+africa+origins

The real origin of the word is Arabic. AL is old Arabic for Black as in Algeria, which means black area.
Alkebulan basically means Black land, or as some prefer to translate it land of the black.

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thankx 4 breaking that down keita, is it possible they did have a name but it was simply lost through history like many other traditions and info?

According to my research the name “Africa” is the Latinized version of the Arabic “Ifriqiyah,” which means “Queen of Heaven.” This was the original name of Tunisia, the northernmost country on the African continent, and it corresponds to the constellation Cassiopeia (which translates, “Queen of Ethiopia”), the northernmost constellation in the Heavens...

Wow! This is an interesting classoom! teachers in here. If Black Education was like this, Game Over!

I though KHEMET mean't "Land of the Blacks."

Can someone please help me out with this.

Unless KHEMET is greek, and Ifriqiyah is Latin, please translate.

Cedric Denson

Ozzy and Keita, very insightful and refreshing information, and I join with Cedric and Therious in commending you men and women of this board for lighting our way with some serious knowledge...

HOWEVER...when I aint too sure, I tend to point to the scholars like Van Sertima, Ben Jocannon, or Clarke, and say go look for the answers among these very wise and intelligent intellectuals... Admittedly, we've have done a great job of illuminating one another on this thread, but we gotta encourage brothers and sisters to do the hard work, develop the discipline of reading the works of our scholars...

Peace!
Isaiah

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Results from further research:

The origin of the name “Africa” has been difficult to elucidate. It became the accepted term from Roman times onwards in the form “Africa,” replacing the original Greek or Egyptian word “Libya” – the land of the Lebu or the Lubins in Genesis – from designating the North African coast, the word “Africa” came to be applied to the whole continent from the end of the first century.

The word “Africa” is also thought to come from the name of a Berber people who lived south of Carthage, the “afarik” or “aourigha,” whence “afriga” or “africa,” to denote the land of the “afarik.”

Another derivation of the word is that it comes from two Phoenician terms, one of which means “an ear of corn,” a fertility symbol in that region, and the other, “pharika,” meaning “the land of fruit.” Another origin might be the Phoenician root “faraq,” which suggests the idea of separation, or in other words, “diaspora.”

It is further suggested that the word “Africa” comes from the Latin adjective “aprica” (sunny) or the Greek “aprike” (free from cold). In Sanskrit and Hindi, the root “apara” or “africa” denotes that which – in geographical terms – comes “after”…in other words, the west. Africa is the western continent.

A historical tradition ascribed to be Leo Africanus has it that a Yemeni chief named Africus invaded North Africa in the second millennium, and founded a town called “Afrikyah.” But it is more likely that the Arabic word “Ifriqiya” is the Arabic transliteration of the word “Africa.” It means, "Queen of Heaven."

(In fact, "Ifriqiya" and "Africa" is linguistically an extremely short step...)

I too have heard that the real name for Africa was Alkebulan. I'm not sure if I read it in a book called "Africa The Mother of Western Civilization" I'm almost positive that's the name of the book. I read it about 7 years ago, and loaned it out and didn't get it back.

The name has been changed continuously throughout history, to keep us from identifying with anything in the Old Testament. We are the people spoken of in the OT, who have been taken as a nation, by ship enslaved, and brought to another country in which our ancesters had no knowledge of these people or their language.

We are the people who have been scattered to all four corners of the earth, continuously oppressed all our days and someone else is claiming our inheritance. We also have no knowledge of who we truly are. i.e. lost tribes (if you think about it, none of us really know our true last name) The answers for us, are in the Old Testament, but to get people to let go of the New Testament if only for a minute to just really read the Old Testament is too much like pulling teeth.

Much Love

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Its gonna be alright, as long we cause it to be.

Results from further research:

The origin of the name “Africa” has been difficult to elucidate. It became the accepted term from Roman times onwards in the form “Africa,” replacing the original Greek or Egyptian word “Libya” – the land of the Lebu or the Lubins in Genesis – from designating the North African coast, the word “Africa” came to be applied to the whole continent from the end of the first century.

The word “Africa” is also thought to come from the name of a Berber people who lived south of Carthage, the “afarik” or “aourigha,” whence “afriga” or “africa,” to denote the land of the “afarik.”

Another derivation of the word is that it comes from two Phoenician terms, one of which means “an ear of corn,” a fertility symbol in that region, and the other, “pharika,” meaning “the land of fruit.” Another origin might be the Phoenician root “faraq,” which suggests the idea of separation, or in other words, “diaspora.”

It is further suggested that the word “Africa” comes from the Latin adjective “aprica” (sunny) or the Greek “aprike” (free from cold). In Sanskrit and Hindi, the root “apara” or “africa” denotes that which – in geographical terms – comes “after”…in other words, the west. Africa is the western continent.

A historical tradition ascribed to be Leo Africanus has it that a Yemeni chief named Africus invaded North Africa in the second millennium, and founded a town called “Afrikyah.” But it is more likely that the Arabic word “Ifriqiya” is the Arabic transliteration of the word “Africa.” It means, "Queen of Heaven."

(In fact, "Ifriqiya" and "Africa" is linguistically an extremely short step...)
So much information to be learned. Its nice to see people are sharing knowledge of the motherland so generously. I will use what I've learned to the best of my ability. Thank you.