Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

Examines West Africa's past through the lenses of archaeology, ecology, culture, linguistics, and oral traditions, including religious, ethnic, and economic issues in contemporary West Africa.

Themes in West Africa's History

Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)

From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).

Dictionary of African Biography

Designed as a textbook for the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

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