What is the origin of the word “Africa?
” According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizationbetter known as UNESCOduring the time of the Roman empire, the term became accepted as a replacement for the word “Libya” which meant the land of the Lebu or Lubins in Genesis. Geographically, Libya meant only the north coast of the continent and at first, so did Africa. By the end of the first century A.D., Africa came to mean the entire continent. The etymology, the origin of the term Africa is not so precisely agreed upon and, according to UNESCO, its origin is credited to one of seven theories: The Afarak, also known as the Aourigha, were a Berber people who lived south of Carthage. The terms Afarik or Africa were used to denote the land of the Afarak. Some believe that the word comes from from the Latin adjective aprica which means sunny or the Greek aprike, which means free from cold. The Phoenician root faraqua, which suggests a separation or in other words, diaspora. The same root is found in so
