Wp/wlx/Africa

Africa

continent, geographic location, geographic region

Part of	Ostfeste, Earth, Afro-Eurasia, Afro-Asia
Country	no value
Located in/on physical feature	Northern hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere
Coordinate location	21°5′38″N 7°11′17″E
Highest point	Mount Kibo
Lowest point	Afar Triangle
Owner of	International Council of African Museums
Shares border with	Eurasia, Asia
Studied in	African studies, Africana studies
Geography of topic	geography of Africa
History of topic	history of Africa
Economy of topic	economy of Africa
Demographics of topic	demographics of Africa
NCI Thesaurus ID	C26272
Category for maps	Category:Maps of Africa

Africa eyɛ a donɛɛ jaa jikpoŋ ayi daana aneŋ a tare noba yaga a donɛɛ jaa ayi puoŋ, a yi a Asia puoriŋ a yɛlɛ ayi ŋa eŋaŋ. Awa 30.3 million km²(11.7 million square miles) maahibo a paale yie aŋ be kõɔ puo jaa, page la a donɛɛ jaa 20% tengane aneŋ 6% tengane yoŋ pagebo. A taa 1.4 billion nensaaleba a yi a yuoni 2021 puoŋ, ka lɛ wullo ka o taa la a donɛɛ zaa nensaaleba 18%. Africa la jie ŋa aŋ nenfẽẽ a yi a donɛɛ lamboe zaa puoŋ. Anaa jaa ka naaŋmene bon-irihi bela a Africa yaga kyɛ nandaalooŋ kpoŋ be la a Africa puoŋ a gaa donɛɛ jaa ka Oceania yoŋ naa ne. Bageneba yeli la ka yɛlezamaa la waana neŋ a nandaalooŋ awo; teŋgane waaloŋ, savaala waaloŋ, n bal yoŋ deme yɛlɛ, nansaaleba feroo, a tammo zɔɔzɔɔ yɛlɛ, nansaaleba naŋ naŋ de ba nuuri enna te yɛlɛ Poɔ, yeli ka n yeli yɛlɛ naŋ ba kyɛbe, aneŋ poɔbo yɛlɛ.

O yuori boɔloo waabo

Afri yuori da la northern Africa, aŋ da be west of Nile river, kyɛ ka kyɛɛmaa jaa da bɔono lands south of the Mediterranean, kyɛ bee Ancient Libya. A paaloŋ neɛ kaŋa naŋ da yie Libyan yuori baŋ da di ko Africa. A yuori muni la ʿafar "tani ", Aŋa yuori ŋa la maaliŋ be la Banu Ifran naŋ yie Algeria aneŋ Tripolitania, Berber tribe naŋ da yie Yafran (kyɛ bee Ifrane) naŋ be northwestern Libya, aneŋ Ifrane naŋ be Morocco.

Akyaare ne Roman naaloŋ diibɔ , Carthage da waa la yirkpoŋ a Africa Proconsularis, zaa. Akyaare ne Carthaginians a ko a Third Punic War a 146 BC, aneŋ coastal part of modern Libya. Latin suffix -ica da maŋ di la teŋkpogɔ ko neɛ. (e.g., in Celtica from Celtae, as used by Julius Caesar). A Muslim region naŋ be Ifriqiya, aneŋ Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire's Exarchatus Africae, da suŋ la ka Africa yuori doɔ.

Akyaari ne Romans, Africa be la west of Egypt, kyɛ ka "Asia" be Anatolia aneŋ lands naŋ be east. Geographer margi la line a ɛiŋ a continents ayie eŋa. Ptolemy (85–165 CE), aŋ woɔno Alexandria along the Prime Meridian a kyɛ maale isthmus of Suez aneŋ Red Sea laŋtogo a ko Asia aneŋ Africa.

Etymological hypotheses mine miŋ taa la Africa yuori. Ka mine la:

• The 1st-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (Ant. 1.15) asserted that it was named for Epher, grandson of Abraham according to Gen. 25:4, whose descendants, he claimed, had invaded Libya.
• Isidore of Seville in his 7th-century Etymologiae XIV.5.2. suggests "Africa" comes from the Latin aprica, meaning "sunny".
• Massey, in 1881, stated that Africa is derived from the Egyptian af-rui-ka, meaning "to turn toward the opening of the Ka." The Ka is the energetic double of every person and the "opening of the Ka" refers to a womb or birthplace. Africa would be, for the Egyptians, "the birthplace."
• Michèle Fruyt in 1976 proposed linking the Latin word with africus "south wind", which would be of Umbrian origin and mean originally "rainy wind".
• Robert R. Stieglitz of Rutgers University in 1984 proposed: "The name Africa, derived from the Latin *Aphir-ic-a, is cognate to Hebrew Ophir ['rich']."
• Ibn Khallikan and some other historians claim that the name of Africa came from a Himyarite king called Afrikin ibn Kais ibn Saifi ("Afrikus son of Abraham") who subdued Ifriqiya.
• Arabic afrīqā (feminine noun) and ifrīqiyā, now usually pronounced afrīqiyā (feminine) 'Africa', from ‘afara [‘ = ‘ain, not ’alif] 'to be dusty' from ‘afar 'dust, powder' and ‘afir 'dried, dried up by the sun, withered' and ‘affara 'to dry in the sun on hot sand' or 'to sprinkle with dust'.
• Possibly Phoenician faraqa in the sense of 'colony, separation'.

Yelekore

Yelekore a ko North Africa, yelekore a ko West Africa, yelekore a ko Central Africa, yelekore a ko East Africa, yelekole a ko Southern Africa, aneŋ aneŋ Nayiri jaa naŋ be Africa yelekore poɔ.

Yelekore jaa naŋ be Africa aneŋ Cambridge Africa yelekore.