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Encyclopedia Africana
The Encyclopedia Africana: The knowledge project that threatened the world
The Encyclopedia Africana was a direct threat to how the modern world learned, taught, and profited from African history. Conceived as a definitive, African-led archive of global Black civilization, it aimed to correct centuries of distortion that painted Africa as ahistorical, peripheral, and dependent. Backed by Kwame Nkrumah and entrusted to W.E.B. Du Bois in…
