Downtown Africa
The Origin of the Name AFRICA is believed by most Etymologists to have been derived from AFRI, the name of a group of people who dwelt in North Africa near Carthage around the 3rd Century B.C and C.A-The Roman Suffix for Country or Land. Ancient Greeks and Romans originally used the term to apply only to the Northern Region of the Continent. In Latin, the word AFRICA means “SUNNY” and the word APHRIKE in Greek means “WITHOUT COLD”.
The name Africa is a phenomenon. Home to 1.216 billion people, the world’s second-largest population and 2nd largest continent after Asia. Africa is a renowned name that has traveled way beyond the shores of the Nile to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The name is one, over time that is connected to this historical heritage and tied to historical revolutions.
