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~ AFRICA      id+ | " SOUTH LAND " or CARTHAGE |
              note AUSTRALIA also for SOUTH LAND
~ AFRICAN     id+ | NATIVE from AFRICA |
~ AFRICANUS   ancient author see> below
~ AFRICUS     or AFER means SOUTH WIND
              probably from
  Phoenician  AFER     = LAND OF CARTHAGE
  lat         AFER       AFRICA
  gr          APHRIKE    same
  myth>       APHRODITE  or
                         ASTARTE ASHTAROTH SHTAR
                         A GODESS FROM EGYPT SYRIA and
                         other SOUTHERN LANDS
  sp          AUSTRAL    SOUTHERN
  hx>         AUSTRALIA  NEW SOUTHERN CONTINENT
  lit+    Leo AFRICANUS  [#] wrote of the MALI people
          " ... EXCEL ALL OTHER NEGROES IN WIT
  CIVILITY AND INDUSTRY AND WERE THE FIRST TO
  EMBRACE THE LAW OF MAHUMET ... "  in
  John W Blake "Europeans in West Africa
  ... 1450-1560" document 27 Hakluyt Society, London, 1942
  hx> " BLACK AFRICA " is used to DESCRIBE REGIONS
      INHABITED BY THE " BLACK " or formerly
  " COLORED " MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE
  sug> RACE  RACIALISM  RACISM
  cont> see> APHRODITE

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