the Latin word Africa could come from either the name Afridi, a tribe that lived in North Africa near Carthage precisely, from Afar Phoenician term meaning "dust" 6. Another explanation would bring the word Africa Berber Taferka meaning "land", "land ownership". According to other researchers, the word Africa comes from the tribe of Banu Ifren (Amazigh tribe) 7,8,9,10, whose ancestor is also called Ifren Iforen or Ifuraces or Afer11 (term also means "cave" or "cave "in the Berber language as Ibn Khaldoun12 books.google.fr). IFRI, the singular form of the word also means a Ifren amazigh13 divinity 14.15. Other researchers refer to the Banu Ifren as the inhabitants of ancient إفريقيا IFRIQIYA meant that once Arabic is now Tunisia and the name of Africa stems from the appointment of the tribe of Banu Ifren16, 17. In addition, the Banu Ifren would Ifuraces, Afar tribe gathers. The former lived Ifuraces Tripoli and are Zenetes Berbers that Corripus appointed in his book Johanide by Ifuraces18 19. Earlier etymologies in the 20th century are no longer as historical curiosities: Isidore of Seville drew its name from the Latin aprica ("sunny"), Leo Africanus invoked a fictional Greek word-phrike ("without cold") . Long term Africa has only served to designate North Africa predominantly Arab-Berber, south to black majority was called Ethiopia. And in Book V of his Natural History, Pliny the Elder mentions the River Niger, which he called Nigris as délimitation20 "river Nigris separates Africa from Ethiopia" and also to "the Ethiopian nations" live in the surrounding area.
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