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

by Toyin Falola (Editor), Daniel Jean-Jacques (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798216042730
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/14/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1416
File size:	46 MB
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Age Range:	7 - 17 Years

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.
Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has received over 30 lifetime career awards and 14 honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on Nigeria and Africa, including his latest book with Bloomsbury, Daily Life in Colonial Africa (2024).

Table of Contents

Preface,
Acknowledgments,
Introduction,
Chronology,

VOLUME 1
Algeria,
Angola,
Benin, Republic of,
Botswana,
Burkina Faso,
Burundi, Republic of,
Cameroon, Republic of (République du Cameroun),
Cape Verde,
Central African Republic,
Chad,
Comoros, Federal Islamic Republic of the (The Union of the Comoros/Union des Comores),
Congo, Democratic Republic of the (DRC),
Congo, Republic of,
Côte d'Ivoire, République de,
Djibouti,

VOLUME 2
Egypt, Arab Republic of (Gumhuriyyat Mi?r al-?Arabiyyah),
Equatorial Guinea,
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Gabon, Republic of,
The Gambia,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Kenya,
Lesotho,
Liberia,
Libya,
Madagascar,
Malawi,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Mauritius,
Morocco,
Mozambique,

VOLUME 3
Namibia,
Niger,
Nigeria,
Rwanda,
São Tomé and Príncipe,
Senegal,
Seychelles, Republic of (or Seychelles Islands),
Sierra Leone,
Somalia,
South Africa,
South Sudan, Republic of,
Sudan, Democratic Republic of (Jamburyat es-Sudan Al Democratia),
Swaziland,
Tanzania,
Togo (Togolese Republic),
Tunisia,
Uganda,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe,

General Bibliography,
Editors and Contributors,
Index,