: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 ==
- {{Cite encyclopedia
| 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 ==
- {{Cite encyclopedia
| 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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- {{Cite encyclopedia
| 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 ==
- {{Cite encyclopedia
| 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 ==
- {{Cite encyclopedia
| 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
}}