Certain to prove invaluable to anyone interested in black history and the influence of African culture on the world today, Africana is a unique testament to the remarkable legacy of a great and varied people. The interplay between text and illustration conveys the richness and sweep of the African and African American experience as no other publication before it. Beautifully designed and richly illustrated with over a thousand images - maps, tables, charts, photographs, hundreds of them in full color - this single-volume reference includes more than three thousand articles and over two million words. Du Bois and assisted by an eminent advisory board, Harvard scholars Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kwame Anthony Appiah have created the first scholarly encyclopedia to take as its scope the entire history of Africa and the African Diaspora. Inspired by the dream of the late African American scholar W.E.B. African-American Studies/History/Social SciencesĪfricana by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates
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