Encyclopedia of Africa

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Philosopher and scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah is president of the PEN American Center and a professor at Princeton University. He is the author of a collection of essays on African-American identity called In My Father’s House and co-author of the nonfiction book Color Consciousness: The Political Morality of Race. He collaborated with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to complete Africana, which became the basis for the revised and expanded Encyclopedia of Africa. Providing the most current and extensive coverage of the region, the Encyclopedia of Africa profiles prominent individuals and outlines significant events, places, political movements, art forms, religions, and ethnic groups throughout Africa.

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Encyclopedia of Africa (Hardcover)

By Henry Louis Gates, JR., Kwame Anthony Appiah

ISBN-13: 9780195337709
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA, 02/01/2010

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