This authoritative reference explores the history of the peoples of Africa and shows how their politics, states, societies, economies, environments, cultures, and arts were transformed during the course of the twentieth century. Overseen by a diverse and distinguished international team of consultant editors, the encyclopedia sheds new light not only on events themselves, but also on the forces behind the changes that have shaped Africa's history over the past 100 years.
Key features:
* Is the first comprehensive encyclopedia to focus exclusively on the history of Africa in the twentieth century
* Includes over 250 signed A-Z entries by an international team of specialist scholars in leading centers for African studies
* Covers the entire African continent throughout the twentieth century, and places African events within a global context
* Incorporates and compares experiences of the women and men of Africa, providing an in-depth look at the effects of gender dynamics within African history
* Provides cross-references, suggestions for further reading, and index
Selected entries: Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; African Development Bank; African Diasporas; African Religions; Agrarian Change; Alcohol and Drugs; Alexandria, Egypt; Algeria; Arab League, the; Arabic; Architecture; Bujumbura, Burundi; Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cairo, Egypt; Cameroon; Cape Town, South Africa; Cape Verde; Capitalisms and Capitalists; Casablanca, Morocco; Central Africa; Central African Federation; Central African Republic; Chad; Christian Reform Movements; Christianity; Cinema; Civil Society; Cold War; Colonial Africa; Colonial Conquest and Resistance; Colonial Economy; Colonial Education; Colonial Society; Colonial State and Administration; And many more...

Educated in Malawi, Britain and Canada, Paul Tiyambi Zeleza is a distinguished historian, writer and scholar. He has taught at universities in Malawi, Kenya, Jamaica, Canada and the United States. He is the author of over a dozen books, two of which won the 1994 Noma Award and the 1998 Special Commendation of the Noma Award, respectively, Africa's most prestigious book award.
Dickson Eyoh is a Cameroonian-born Political Scientist currently teaching at the Univeristy of Toronto, Canada. Educated in Cameroon, the United States and Canada, he has also taught at York University in Canada and University of Jos in Nigeria.

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Accra, Ghana; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; African Development Bank; African diasporas; African religions; agrarian change; alcohol and drugs; Alexandria, Egypt; Algeria; Algiers, Algeria; Anglophone Africa; Angola; Antananarivo, Madagascar; Arab Maghreb Union; Arabic; architecture; Asmara, Eritrea; Bamako, Mali; Bangui, Central African Republic; Banjul, Gambia; Benin; Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; Blantyre, Malawi; Botswana; Brazzaville, Congo; Bujumbura, Burundi; Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; Burkina faso; Burundi; Cairo, Egypt; Cameroon; Cape Town, South Africa; Cape Verde; capitalisms and capitalists; Casablanca, Morocco; Central Africa; Central African Federation; Central African Republic; Chad; Christian reform movements; Christianity; cinema; civil society; Cold War; colonial Africa; colonial conquest and resistance; Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA); Commonwealth, the; Comoros; Conakry, Guinea; Congo; Cote d'Ivoire; Cotonou, Benin; Dakar, Senegal; dance; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; debt crises; decolonization; Democratic Republic of the Congo; development of African history; Djibouti; Douala, Cameroon; Durban, South Africa; East Africa; East African Community; Economic Community of West African States; economy: colonial; economy: post-independence; education: colonial; education: post-independence; Egypt; environmental change; environmental movements; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Ethiopia; European Union, the; families; First World War; food crises; Francophone Africa; Freetown, Sierra Leone; French Equatorial Africa; French West Africa; Fulani; Gabon; Gaborone; Gambia; genocides; Ghana; Globalization; Great Depression; Great Lakes; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Harare, Zimbabwe; Hausa; health and disease; human rights; Ibadan, Nigeria; intellectuals: colonial era; intellectuals: post-independence era; international financial institutions; international trade; Islam; Islamic reform movements; Johannesburg, South Africa; Juba, Sudan; Kampala, Uganda; Kano, Nigeria; Kenya; Khartoum, Sudan; Kigali, Rwanda; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Kumasi, Ghana; La Francophonie; labour movements; Lagos, Nigeria; law; League of Arab States; leisure; Lesotho; Liberia; Libya; Lingala; literature; Lome, Togo; Luanda, Angola; Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo; Lusaka, Zambia; Lusophone Africa; Madagascar; Malawi; Mali; manufacturing: indigenous; manufacturing: modern; Maputo, Mozambique; Maseru, Lesotho; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mbabane, Swaziland; merchants; migrant labour; Mogadishu, Somalia; Mombasa, Kenya; Monrovia, Liberia; Morocco; Mozambique; music; N'djamena, Chad; Nairobi, Kenya; Namibia; nationalist movements; Niamey, Niger; Niger; Niger Delta; Nigeria; non-African diasporas; Non-Aligned movement; Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs); North Africa; Nouakchott, Mauritania; Organization of African Unity; Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC); Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; pan-Africanism; pastoralism; peasant movements; peasants; plantation agriculture; population; Press, the; professionals; Rabat, Morocco; race and ethnicity; radio and television; refugees; regional integration; Rift Valley; Rwanda; Sahara; Sao Tomé and príncipe; Savanna; Second World War; Senegal; sex and sexuality; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; slavery; socialisms and socialists; society: colonial; society: post-independence; Somalia; South Africa; Southern Africa; Southern African Development Community; sports; state: colonial; state: post-independence; structural adjustment programmes; Sudan; Swahili; Swaziland; Tanzania; telecommunications; theatre; Third World; Togo; trading diasporas; transport; Tripoli, Libya; tropical rain forest; Tunis, Tunisia; Tunisia; Uganda; United Nations Organization; urbanization; visual arts; West Africa; Windhoek, Namibia; women's movements; workers; Yaounde, Cameroon; Yoruba; youth; Zambia; Zanzibar, Tanzania; Zimbabwe; Zulu