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"What a wonderful thing for the young people of this country to have, at last, within a single source, a chronicle of the history and achievements, the suffering and the triumphs, of African Americans and their cousins in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the rest of the world." —MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN, President, Children’s Defense Fund "For centuries, scholars have listed in encyclopedias western knowledge and western achievement in nearly every volume. Black people have been vague, shadowy beings rarely delineated, rarely described and their achievements rarely listed. Now, with Africana, we have an encyclopedia where Africa and her descendents are the features, not the forgotten." —MAYA ANGELOU, Reynolds Professor of American Studies, Wake Forest University "Scholarship on African and African American culture and history has blossomed in the last thirty years, and has moved into the center of university research. Africana takes that knowledge and makes it available to people of all races." —BEN CARSON, Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University "The 1960s created Black Studies and Black Studies created an incredible burst of exciting scholarship on Africa and the African Diaspora. Building on that scholarship, Skip Gates and Anthony Appiah at Harvard have put together a first-rate compendium of black knowledge, an encyclopedia that will instruct and entertain us for years to come." —JULIAN BOND, Chairman, NAACP; Distinguished Professor at American University; Professor of History, University of Virginia more reviews | |