Encyclopedia Africana

The Encyclopedia Africana (short: Africana) is an encyclopedia on the history of Africa and the African diaspora. Its founder was the African- American scholar WEB Du Bois, the " shamelessly afro centric " concept described her as.

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Du Bois began work on the encyclopedia in the early 1960s, but died shortly afterwards in Ghana.

The first edition of Africana (1999) includes a band. It is thematically divided into three parts and includes articles on African-American, Afro- Latin American and afrikanistische topics.

The second edition (2005, ed. By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah ) includes 3500 keywords in five volumes.