Africana

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by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Running Press

Due/Published December 2003, 800 pages, cloth

ISBN 0762416424

Drawn from the acclaimed landmark publication, Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, this incomparable one-volume encyclopedia of the black world is now available in a concise edition. It brings the entire Pan-African experience into sharp focus, with entries ranging from "affirmative action" to "zydeco," from each of the most prominent ethnic groups in Africa to each member of the Congressional Black Caucus. It also features longer, interpretive essays on the religion, arts, and cultural life of Africans and of black people everywhere.