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Dictionary of African Biography
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Dictionary of African Biography

Edited by Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Henry Louis Gates

From the pharaohs to Frantz Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa’s history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490–1468 BCE) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243–183 BCE), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909–1972), Miriam Makeba, and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (b. 1918). Subjects are drawn from all walks of life, including philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, and everyday people.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
2012
Print ISBN-13:
9780195382075
Published to Oxford Reference:
2011
Current Online Version:
2011
eISBN:
9780199857258

Authors

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, editor in chief

Henry Louis Gates, editor in chief

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong is 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.

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