:Wikipedia:Encyclopedias about Africa

This is a selection of Africa subject encyclopedias from the collection of the Library of Congress.

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== Encyclopedia Africana ==

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| edition = 2nd

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| isbn = 9780195170559

|editor=Anthony Appiah|editor2=Henry Louis Gates

| title =

| encyclopedia = Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience

| location = Oxford ; New York

| date = 2005

}}

== General ==

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| publisher = ABC-CLIO

| isbn = 9781851094417

|editor=Richard M. Juang|editor2=Noelle Anne Morrissette

| title =

| encyclopedia = Africa and the Americas: culture, politics, and history: a multidisciplinary encyclopedia

| location = Santa Barbara, Calif

| series = Transatlantic relations series

| date = 2008

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = Cambridge University Press

| isbn = 0521230969

|editor=Roland Anthony Oliver|editor2=Michael Crowder

| title =

| encyclopedia = The Cambridge encyclopedia of Africa

| location = Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York

| date = 1981

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = C. Scribner's Sons

| isbn = 0684804662

| editor = John Middleton

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara

| location = New York

| date = 1997

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = Facts on File; Diagram Group

| isbn = 0816045682

| editor-last = Lye

| editor-first = Keith

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilization

| location = New York

| series = Facts on File library of world history

| date = 2002

| page = 189

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| edition = 2nd

| publisher = Macmillan Reference USA

| isbn = 0028657691

| editor = Philip Mattar

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East & North Africa

| location = Detroit, Mich

| date = 2004

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = Nasou

| encyclopedia = Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa

| edition = 1st

| location = Cape Town

| year = 1970

| oclc = 556727496

}}

== History ==

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| publisher = Berkshire Pub. Group

| isbn = 9780977015993

| editor = William Hardy McNeill

| title =

| encyclopedia = Africa in world history

| location = Great Barrington, Mass

| date = 2011

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = Fitzroy Dearborn

| isbn = 1579582451

| editor = Kevin Shillington

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of African History

| location = New York

| date = 2005

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = Routledge

| isbn = 0415234794

|editor=Paul Tiyambe Zeleza|editor2=Dickson Eyoh

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of twentieth-century African history

| location = London ; New York

| date = 2003

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = Scarecrow Press

| isbn = 0810836335

| last = Arnold

| first = Guy

| authorlink = Guy Arnold

| title =

| encyclopedia = Historical dictionary of civil wars in Africa

| location = Lanham, MD

| series = Historical dictionaries of war, revolution, and civil unrest

| date = 1999

}}

== Topical ==

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| publisher = Routledge

| isbn = 041593933X

|editor=Philip M. Peek|editor2=Kwesi Yankah

| title =

| encyclopedia = African folklore: an encyclopedia

| location = New York

| date = 2004

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = ABC-CLIO

| isbn = 1576079198

|editor=Michael Dumper|editor2=Bruce E. Stanley

| title =

| encyclopedia = Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia

| location = Santa Barbara, Calif

| date = 2007

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = SAGE

| isbn = 9781412936361

|editor=Molefi K. Asante|editor2=Ama Mazama

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of African religion

| location = Thousand Oaks, Calif

| date = 2009

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = Greenwood Press

| isbn = 9780313334801

|editor=Toyin Falola|editor2=Amanda Warnock

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of the middle passage

| location = Westport, Conn

| series = Greenwood milestones in African American history

| date = 2007

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| edition = New

| publisher = Eco-Logic Pub

| isbn = 0620318937

|editor=David Parry-Davies

| title =

| encyclopedia = The enviropaedia: environmental encyclopaedia & networking directory for southern Africa

| location = Simonstown, W. Cape

| date = 2004

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = Thomson/Gale

| isbn = 9780684314549

|editor=John Middleton|editor2=Joseph Calder Miller

| title =

| encyclopedia = New encyclopedia of Africa

| location = Detroit

| date = 2008

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| isbn = 9780195334739

|editor=Abiola Irele|editor2=Biodun Jeyifo

| title =

| encyclopedia = The Oxford encyclopedia of African thought

| location = New York

| date = 2010

}}

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = Longman Current Affairs

| isbn = 0582209951

| last = Arnold

| first = Guy

| authorlink = Guy Arnold

| title =

| encyclopedia = Political and economic encyclopaedia of Africa

| location = Harlow

| date = 1993

}}

== German language ==

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| publisher = Gressner & Schramm

| last = Heichen

| first = Paul

| title =

| encyclopedia = Afrika Hand-Lexikon

| location = Leipzig

| accessdate = 2014-04-03

| date = 1885

| url = https://archive.org/details/afrikahandlexiko01heic

}} ([https://archive.org/details/afrikahandlexiko02heic volume 2], [https://archive.org/details/afrikahandlexiko02heic volume 3], Internet Archive)

  • {{Cite encyclopedia

| publisher = Peter Lang

| isbn = 9783631595688

|editor=Wolfgang Gieler

| title =

| encyclopedia = Afrika-Lexikon: Geographie, Geschichte, Kultur, Politik und Wirtschaft

| location = Frankfurt am Main ; New York

| date = 2010

}}