Africa : Alkebulan - the real name of Africa (?)

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.

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Aqil said:
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.
 
In the Spirit of Sankofa and Update!

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


......For the record and archives sunjata, according to Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan, the indigenous term Alkebu-lan means, "garden of eden" and/or "mother of mankind"...I believe he first reported this in his: Black Man of the Nile work, which consisted of 30 years of research during the dominance of Western influence on civilization.

And thanks to Dr. Ben, the term is now widely accepted across the board by most scholars, and replaces the Latin term, Africa, in mainstream studies.
 
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