Before European colonization, the African continent was known as Alkebulan (meaning 'mother of mankind') by ancient scholars and Moorish historians, and as Kemet (the 'Black Land') by ancient Egyptians; the name 'Africa' originated from a Roman military designation for a small Berber tribe in Tunisia in 146 BC, which was later expanded by European cartographers to encompass the entire continent, erasing the continent's original identity and history.
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The true name of the Africa continent--- AlkebulanAdded:
Have you ever wondered what Africa was called before it was called Africa? The fact that you're guessing right now is the whole problem. Because you weren't supposed to know. The people who renamed it, they made sure of that. Before any Roman ever touched that soil, before any European man ever tried to contain it, this land already had a name. And not just one, Al Keban. Let's say it out loud. Al Kebolan. That is what the oldest scholars on Earth called this place. Moorish historians, ancient records, civilizations that existed before Rome was even a thought. And what did it mean? It meant mother of mankind.
Not just a location, but a declaration.
And then there was Chem. The ancient Egyptians, the people who built structures that we still cannot fully explain today. They looked at their land at the dark, rich soil the Nile blessed them with, and they said that this place is sacred. So they named it the Black Land Kit. a people so rooted in who they were that their very ground had a title and then Rome showed up in the year 146 BC. They destroyed Carthage, burnt it to the ground, salted the earth so nothing grows back. And then after all of that destruction, they looked at this tiny corner in North Africa that they had just claimed and they named it land of the Afrey tribe. One small Berber tribe in what is now Tunisia. Not the whole continent, just their little trophy. But then the maps came and this is where it gets really sinister because European cgraphers men sitting in offices thousands of miles away they started drawing up this continent and with every map they printed the name Africa crept further south further east further west swallowing alan whole burying ke under Latin ink until one Roman military trophy became the name of 54 nations and 1.4 billion souls. They didn't just take the land. They didn't just take the people. They renamed the mother and told her children that that was always her name. This is not a small thing because when you erase a name, you erase the story behind it. You erase mother of mankind. You erase the black land and you replace an entire identity with a footnote in someone else's history book.
A footnote that they wrote about a story that was never theirs to tell. That's wild, right? And right now today, movements across the continent are fighting to bring Alvan back. Not just on maps, not just on passports, but in the mouths of the people who finally know the truth. People who looked at the footnote and said, "No, man. We are the whole book." So what was Africa before it was called Africa? Now you know. The question is, what are you going to do with that?
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