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

• Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates, eds. (2005). Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience (2nd ed.). Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195170559. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

General

• Richard M. Juang; Noelle Anne Morrissette, eds. (2008). Africa and the Americas: culture, politics, and history: a multidisciplinary encyclopedia. Transatlantic relations series. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851094417. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Roland Anthony Oliver; Michael Crowder, eds. (1981). The Cambridge encyclopedia of Africa. Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521230969. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• John Middleton, ed. (1997). Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. ISBN 0684804662. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Lye, Keith, ed. (2002). Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilization. Facts on File library of world history. New York: Facts on File; Diagram Group. p. 189. ISBN 0816045682. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Philip Mattar, ed. (2004). Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East & North Africa (2nd ed.). Detroit, Mich: Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 0028657691. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa (1st ed.). Cape Town: Nasou. 1970. OCLC 556727496. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

History

African biography reference books, Main Reading Room, Library of Congress

• William Hardy McNeill, ed. (2011). Africa in world history. Great Barrington, Mass: Berkshire Pub. Group. ISBN 9780977015993. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Kevin Shillington, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of African History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 1579582451. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). Encyclopedia of twentieth-century African history. London ; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415234794. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Arnold, Guy (1999). Historical dictionary of civil wars in Africa. Historical dictionaries of war, revolution, and civil unrest. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810836335. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Topical

• Philip M. Peek; Kwesi Yankah, eds. (2004). African folklore: an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. ISBN 041593933X. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Michael Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2007). Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576079198. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Molefi K. Asante; Ama Mazama, eds. (2009). Encyclopedia of African religion. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE. ISBN 9781412936361. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Toyin Falola; Amanda Warnock, eds. (2007). Encyclopedia of the middle passage. Greenwood milestones in African American history. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313334801. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• David Parry-Davies, ed. (2004). The enviropaedia: environmental encyclopaedia & networking directory for southern Africa (New ed.). Simonstown, W. Cape: Eco-Logic Pub. ISBN 0620318937. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• John Middleton; Joseph Calder Miller, eds. (2008). New encyclopedia of Africa. Detroit: Thomson/Gale. ISBN 9780684314549. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Abiola Irele; Biodun Jeyifo, eds. (2010). The Oxford encyclopedia of African thought. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195334739. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Arnold, Guy (1993). Political and economic encyclopaedia of Africa. Harlow: Longman Current Affairs. ISBN 0582209951. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

German language

• Heichen, Paul (1885). Afrika Hand-Lexikon. Leipzig: Gressner & Schramm https://archive.org/details/afrikahandlexiko01heic. Retrieved 2014-04-03. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) (volume 2, volume 3, Internet Archive)
• Wolfgang Gieler, ed. (2010). Afrika-Lexikon: Geographie, Geschichte, Kultur, Politik und Wirtschaft. Frankfurt am Main ; New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 9783631595688. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)