Africana / Gates, Henry Louis

Contains more than 4,400 alphabetized articles on people, places, events, and other topics related to Africa and the African-American experience, focusing on political and social history, literature, and the arts; and includes maps, charts, tables, a chronology, and a bibliography.

This book, with its hundreds of maps, tables, charts, and photographs, presents articles on the history of each African nation and every major cultural, religious, and political movement in Africa and the New World.

Contains alphabetized articles--from Aardvark to Catholics--on people, places, events, and other topics related to Africa and the African-American experience, focusing on political and social history, literature, and the arts; and includes maps, charts, tables, and a chronology.