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Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,300,000 km² (11,700,000 mi²) including adjacent islands, it covers 5.9% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.3% of the total land area.Sayre, April Pulley. (1999) Africa, Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 0-7613-1367-2. With more than 840,000,000 people (as of 2005) in 61 territories, it accounts for more than 12% of the world's human population.
Etymology
The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia.
The Afri were a tribe — possibly Berber — who dwelt in North Africa in the Carthage area. The origin of Afer may be connected with Phoenician `afar, dust (also found in most other Semitic languages). Some other etymologies that have been postulated for the ancient name 'Africa' that are much more debatable include:
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RT @tweetmeme NYSE Euronext Salutes Africa http://retwt.me/1GAWl
tuwallstreet1 (Juan Dominguez) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:04:25 -0000
RT @tweetmeme NYSE Euronext Salutes Africa http://retwt.me/1GAWl
RT @THIS DAY IN HISTORY, 1913, Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
AHLOT (Dominque Howse) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:03:23 -0000
RT @THIS DAY IN HISTORY, 1913, Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
@Diveke cada que alguien dice #divekeamesta a un nino de africa le quitan su bisteck :/
muffins_n_beer (Omar Tavera) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:03:13 -0000
@Diveke cada que alguien dice #divekeamesta a un nino de africa le quitan su bisteck :/
@cyclingamericas Been following your exploits for a while via BBC doc, book & now Twitter. Next adventure? China? Africa? (1 day at a time)
bdstew007 (Brian Stewart) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:03:08 -0000
@cyclingamericas Been following your exploits for a while via BBC doc, book & now Twitter. Next adventure? China? Africa? (1 day at a time)
Leicester stun world champions South Africa (AFP)http://tinyurl.com/yjolofc
TheTopNews (TheTopNews) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:02:46 -0000
Leicester stun world champions South Africa (AFP)http://tinyurl.com/yjolofc
Really surprised that the Tigers beat South Africa. I knew they were good, but not that good. Plus they had injuries. Well done.
ohmygeorgii (Georgii) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:02:39 -0000
Really surprised that the Tigers beat South Africa. I knew they were good, but not that good. Plus they had injuries. Well done.
UJ - Department of Information and Knowledge Management - Department offers the B.A. (Information Science), Postgraduate Diploma in Information Management, B.A. (Information Science)(Hons) and B.Informationis (Hons), Magister Informationis (Course work or dissertation) and the D. Litt. et Phil.
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University of Cape Town Department of Information and Library Studies - Courses offered and staff research interests and contact details. The school offers postgraduate diploma, honours, Masters, Master of Philosophy, and Doctoral programmes in library studies.
University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Department of Information Studies - The department was established in 1973. It offers the full range of study programmes from an undergraduate course in Information Retrieval to the PhD.
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University of Pretoria, Department of Information Science - Department offers the Bachelors degree in Library and Information Science, the Bachelors Honours degree in Library and Information Science, Master's degree in Library and Information Science, and the Doctorate degree in Library Science.
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University of the Western Cape, Department of Library and Information Science - The core of the teaching programme of the Department is its BBibl and MBibl Degree programme, which prepares information professionals for all kinds of library and information services. However it has two other programmes - the Lower Diploma in Librarianship, a three year programme mainly educating librarians for community librarianship, and the Diploma in School Librarianship for teachers.
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