The Encyclopedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography 3 South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swazila

The Encyclopaedia Africana's Dictionary of African Biography was the brainchild of Dr W. E. B. Du Bois, who conceived the project way back in 1909. It was to be fourteen years after Du Bois's death, however, before the project, based in Ghana, published its first volume in 1977. Volume I covered Ethiopia and Ghana and was shortly followed by Volume II on Sierra Leone and Zaire. Nearly twenty years further on, Volume III, the present book under review, appeared. The choice of countries followed more regional logic than previous volumes, being devoted to the southern African states of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and South Africa. Namibia, curiously, has a volume planned all to itself, a privilege shared only by Nigeria. Twenty volumes are planned in all.

Hardcover. English. Cambridge University Press. 1995. ISBN: 0917256212. 304 pp. Good with dw. Book No: 2506398