Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [3 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society

Toyin Falola · Daniel Jean-Jacques

Dec 2015 · ABC-CLIO

About this ebook

These volumes offer a one-stop resource for researching the lives, customs, and cultures of Africa's nations and peoples.

Unparalleled in its coverage of contemporary customs in all of Africa, this multivolume set is perfect for both high school and public library shelves. The three-volume encyclopedia will provide readers with an overview of contemporary customs and life in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa through discussions of key concepts and topics that touch everyday life among the nations' peoples.

While this encyclopedia places emphasis on the customs and cultural practices of each state, history, politics, and economics are also addressed. Because entries average 14,000 to 15,000 words each, contributors are able to expound more extensively on each country than in similar encyclopedic works with shorter entries. As a result, readers will gain a more complete understanding of what life is like in Africa's 54 nations and territories, and will be better able to draw cross-cultural comparisons based on their reading.

Supplies entries that are more extensive than in most comparable encyclopedic works

Arranges content alphabetically by country, then by topic, with suggestions for further reading following each

Includes contributions from numerous eminent scholars of African history

Provides a clear African voice via entries from scholars from the African continent

About the author

Toyin Falola, PhD, is a university distinguished teaching professor and holder of the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.

Daniel Jean-Jacques is a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the history of science in late colonial Nigeria.