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Six-volume biographical dictionary
Dictionary of African Biography
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Dictionary_of_African_Biography.jpg/220px-Dictionary_of_African_Biography.jpg) The Dictionary of African Biography, cataloged for the African Studies library at
Boston University
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Language
| English
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Genre
| biographical dictionary
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Publisher
| Oxford University Press
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Publication date
| 2012
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ISBN
| 9780195382075
vol 1-6
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OCLC
| CT1920.D52 2012
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| 920.06
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The
Dictionary of African Biography
is a six-volume
biographical dictionary
, published by
Oxford University Press
.
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Published in 2012, the editors-in-chief are
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
and
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
, both of the
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
of
Harvard University
.
The print version of the dictionary has 2,100 entries covering the whole of the continent of
Africa
, from 1490 BC to today; entries continue to be added online.
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