Dictionary of African Biography

Emmanuel Akyeampong & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Oxford University Press
Oxford
2011
English
Hardcover
3384 pages

Synopsis

In the spirit of The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, American National Biography, and African American National Biography - all three published by Oxford University Press - Dictionary of African Biography is a major biographical dictionary covering the lives and legacies of notable African men and women from all eras and walks of life. This groundbreaking resource tells the full story of the African continent through the lives of its people.

Review

...it is perhaps impossible to capture the full diversity of Africa - a continent of one billion people, and the most continuous site of the evolution of the human species on our planet - in 2000 biographies. But the DAB provides arguably the most thorough sampling to date of the astonishing richness and variety of African lives over the past 5000 years. - The Root

Authors

Emmanuel Akyeampong is a Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.