Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience: The Concise Desk Reference

Legendary scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois laboured to complete an "Encyclopaedia Africana" before his death in 1963. Just over 35 years later, two Harvard educators, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Ghanaian-born Kwame Anthony Appiah, have brought Du Bois' intellectual dream to life.