| Names | Detail Meanings |
|---|
| Alkebulan | (Possibly) "Mother of Mankind" or "Garden of Eden" - Proposed as an indigenous name |
| Africa | - Possibly derived from the Roman "Afri" tribe or the Latin "aprica" meaning "sunny" |
| Phrike | (Greek) "Cold" or "Horror" - An earlier Greek name |
| Libya | - Referenced by ancient Egyptians, possibly linked to a Berber tribe |
| Ethiopia | (Greek) "Land of the Burnt Faces" - Referenced in ancient Greek writings |
| Khalifah al-Ard | (Arabic) "Caliph of the Land" - A historical Islamic title |
| Waschistia | (Ancient Persian) "Land of the Setting Sun" - An ancient Persian name |
| Alkebulan-Iswandla | "Mother of Mankind - Place of the Rising Sun" - Combines Alkebulan with a Zulu term |
| Kush | - An ancient kingdom encompassing parts of modern-day Sudan and Ethiopia |
| Ta netjer | (Ancient Egyptian) "Land of the Divine" |
| Punt | - An ancient land referenced in Egyptian texts, possibly modern-day Somalia or Eritrea |
| Azania | - A historical name for East Africa used in ancient Greek and Roman writings |
| Bilad as-Sudan | (Arabic) "Land of the Blacks" - A historical Arabic term |
| The Dark Continent | - A Eurocentric term used in colonial times |
| Wakanda | (Fictional) - A fictional African nation from Marvel Comics |
| Loango | - An ancient kingdom on Africa's west coast |
| Maram | - An ancient West African empire |
| Ghana | - A powerful West African empire that gave its name to the modern nation |
| Songhai | - Another West African empire flourishing between the 14th and 16th centuries |
| Mali | - A West African empire renowned for its wealth and scholarship |
| Kanem-Bornu | - A long-lasting empire in Central Africa |
| Nubia | - An ancient civilization along the Nile River |
| Axum | - A powerful ancient kingdom in modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea |
| Carthage | - A major Phoenician city-state in North Africa |
| Numidia | - An ancient Berber kingdom in North Africa |
| Mauretania | - An ancient North African kingdom conquered by the Romans |
| Sokoto Caliphate | - A 19th-century Islamic state in West Africa |
| Buganda | - A historical kingdom in modern-day Uganda |
| Bunyoro | - Another ancient kingdom bordering Lake Victoria |
| Rwanda | - A Great Lakes kingdom with a rich pre-colonial history |
| Burundi | - A central African kingdom with close ties to Rwanda |
| Zulu | - A prominent Nguni Bantu ethnic group in Southern Africa |
| Lesotho | - A mountain kingdom in Southern Africa |
| Swaziland | - Now known as eSwatini, a Southern African kingdom |
| Mapungubwe | - An ancient kingdom that predates the rise of Great Zimbabwe |
| Great Zimbabwe | - A powerful Shona kingdom in Southern Africa from the 11th to 15th centuries |
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