Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah.
The
Encyclopedia of Africa presents the most up-to-date and thorough reference in world history, politics, and culture on this region of ever-growing importance. Its core is comprised of entries focusing on African history and culture from 2005’s acclaimed five-volume Africana—nearly two-thirds of these 1,300 entries have been updated, revised, and expanded to reflect the most recent scholarship.
The articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religions, ethnic groups, organizations, and countries throughout Africa. In-depth articles examine contemporary nations of sub-Saharan Africa, ethnic groups from various regions of Africa, and European colonial powers. Two hundred illustrations and demographic sidebars further guide and inform research.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard. He is the editor in chief of Oxford
African American Studies Center (www.oxfordaasc.com).
Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
First edition
Print edition ISBN: 9780195337709
Print edition publication date:
2010
Publishing history: First published 2010
Copyright: © Oxford University Press 2010
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