Note 19 — Chapter II · THE MEDITERRANEAN COLONIZATION OF AFRICA

The Phoenicians may have first brought into vogue the word “Africa.” This would seem to have been derived (see note on p. 10 of Victor Piquet’s Les Civilisations de l’Afrique du Nord: Paris, 1909) from a Berber tribe named Afarik, Awarigha—or latterly, Awuraghen—which occupied the north-east coast of Tunisia in pre-Roman times, but which with other Berber peoples retreated by degrees into the interior till at length it became a Tuareg or desert people. Under the name of Awuraghen, dwelling in Asjer, west of Ghat, this tribe, which has given its name to the whole continent, still exists.