The name Europe (Yu-rup) is African in origin. In fact, it originates from the Dogon language. Though the Dogon today live in a small part of Central Mali, they once had a culture that expanded across much of the Sahara. #Thread 
The Dogon culture once expanded into the Sahara and included the ancient African astronomers of the Central Sahara in the region of Tassili and northern Niger.
Around 600 bce, the Kemetyu began allowing the Hellens (pre-Greeks) to enter its schools as a trade off for gaining Greek soldiers in their continuing fight with the Assyrians and Achemenids.
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There were many other African students and teachers attending the schools in Kemet and Kush, just as today Europeans from all over the world attend Oxford and the Sorbonne. It was there that the Dogon students and teachers first encountered the Hellens/Greeks.
When the Dogon encountered the pale race they immediately recognized their culture of tricknology. They thus associated them with the pale fox in Dogon cosmology who is cunning and destructive. They called this pale fox of chaos, Yurugu.
Just as many African Americans have internalized the N_word and come to identify with it and even claim it to be a praise in the right context, the Greek internalized Yurugu and identified with it.
They took the insult and made it a goddess in their pantheon and Yurugu became Yurupu/Yurupa. Yurupa was said to have children by Zeus and she became the personal goddess of the pale race.
In fact, this is the true symbolism of the Romans who translated their relationship to the pale fox mother Yurupa to a wolf mother ancestor of the first Romans.
However, just as the N_word has retained the original insult (even between African Americans when they are upset with each other) no matter if one attempts to link it with words like negus, the word Yurupa will never cleanse itself of its original meaning as the evil pale fox…
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