Encyclopedia Africana

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience edited by Henry Louis Gates and Anthony Appiah (Basic Civitas Books 1999, 2nd ed.

Du Bois envisioned "an Encyclopedia Africana," which was to be "unashamedly Afro-Centric but not indifferent to the impact of the outside world.

The second edition was published by Oxford University Press in five volumes, including more than 3500 entries on 3960 pages.

[4] Although he never completed the project, the idea of an encyclopedia that explored the Black experience was revived and expanded by W. E. B.

In 1901 Du Bois widened the scope of the project to encompass the entire African diaspora.