Including more than one million words, this work features entries on African kingdoms. It offers coverage of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, and is a reference set on the African experience.

"Thoroughly revised and massively expanded, this monumental work not only serves as a replacement for its 1999 edition, but also merits a place in any academically oriented high school or college collection."--School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW "Updated and greatly expanded.... Notable for its global coverage beyond just the western perspective.... Recommended."-Booklist, Starred Review "Expansive resource.... Plentiful cross-references.... Beautiful color photos and maps.... Superb set." - Library Journal, Starred Review "[A] worthy effort. It greatly expands, updates, and corrects the 1999 edition.... This is an important work.... Recommended."--Choice "Thoroughly revised and massively expanded, this monumental work not only serves as a replacement for its 1999 edition, but also merits a place in any academically oriented high school or college collection."--School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW "Appiah and Gates assembled a distinguished advisory board and recruited 270 scholars to write the entries.... An important work.... Recommended."--Choice "Updated and greatly expanded....While other reference sources generally focus on either Africa or the U.S., Africana is notable for its global coverage beyond just the western perspective....Recommended for college and university libraries or any library needing to update its old edition."--Booklist STARRED REVIEW "Accompanied by beautiful color photos and maps the wide-ranging entries cover individuals, events, places, ethnic groups, organizations, movements, and countries from both the American and African continents and vary in length from a biographical paragraph to a 30-page expository on slavery and slave rebellions.... An inclusive subject bibliography, plentiful cross-references, and a subject/name index make for useful additions to this superb set.... This more expansive resource deals with numerous topics about people of African descent throughout the world, from African American architects to Dominican-Haitian relations."--Library Journal STARRED REVIEW "Substantially larger than the first edition, and with expanded references and indexing, this five-volume set covers a vast geographic area and encompasses the complex histories of Africans in Africa and the Americas."--Reference & Research Library Book News Praise for the First Edition: "Bursting with information and enhanced by contributions from its illustrious advisory board, which includes Jamaica Kincaid, Nell Irvin Painter, Cornel West and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, this book belongs on every family's reference shelf."--Publishers Weekly "Africana will be a very useful tool, and may even set new standards and change attitudes about the African and African-American experience."--The New York Times Book Review "The editors have admirably fulfilled the dream of African American scholar and leader W. E. B. Du Bois, who worked for much of his life to create such a monument. Highly recommended."--Library Journal "Many other reference books of African Americans provide information on the transatlantic slave trade and some provide information on selected cultural practices and folkways that Africans infused into American culture, but Africana holds a unique place among reference works by bridging the Atlantic in numerous ways."--Booklist

Selling point: More than 4,000 articles covering prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries Selling point: "At a Glance" features provide quick summaries of places and events Selling point: Comprehensive bibliography arranged by topic Selling point: Regional tag lines introduce each article and indicate the part of the world an article is linked to

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University. Professor Gates is well known as an innovator in the field of African American studies and as the author of numerous works, including America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans, The Trials of Phillis Wheatly, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man. Gates also co-edited African American Lives, a one-volume collection of biographies that precedes the upcoming, eight-volume African American National Biography. Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Lawrence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He is the author of Assertion and Conditionals, For Truth in Semantics, and In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (OUP 1992). Appiah is also a novelist and poet and he recently collaborated with his mother to compile a collection of proverbs from his homeland, Asante, Ghana.

Selling point: More than 4,000 articles covering prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries Selling point: "At a Glance" features provide quick summaries of places and events Selling point: Comprehensive bibliography arranged by topic Selling point: Regional tag lines introduce each article and indicate the part of the world an article is linked to