Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience

by Anthony Appiah

"Inspired by the dream of the late African American scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and assisted by an eminent advisory board led by Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Harvard professors Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. have created the first scholarly encyclopedia that takes as its scope the entire history of Africa and the African Diaspora. A landmark in reference publishing, Africana is an incomparable one-volume encyclopedia of the black world - a vital resource for families, students, and educators everywhere."--BOOK JACKET. "With entries ranging from "affirmative action"...